What are some good ways to turn trash into energy???

Question

I am doing a project for a class. I have done some research. I wanted to know if anyone else has some good ideas. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Hey! I think Grass when cut makes heat as it decomposes.
Isn't heat a form of energy?

Answer 2

I don't know that much about it, but incinerators are an obvious answer. I do know that Germany, often thought of as one of the greenest nations, incenerates most of their trash instead of recycling it. Even plastic, which surprised me. They do recycle glass. Burning trash turns it into profitable energy, but then there is also the pollutant waste as a result. That is a problem: even when plants install scubbers to clean the air, it leaves behind a sludge that still has to be dealt with. Thus it is impossible to burn cleanly, and it is not a matter of polluting or not polluting, but rather where and how pollution is preferred, as a gas or sludge liquid.

Anyway, if you really want to find the best answers humans have come up with, look at what small countries with large populations--like Germany--are doing. They are the ones that really have to face challenges with their waste.

Answer 3

There are several ways to do turn trash into energy.

The big obstacle is cost.

Unfortunately accurate cost data is very difficult to obtain.

There is a lot of hype, however most of the hype is out there to promote someone's patented process. The cost data is usually understated to get you to buy their process..

Several years ago I and several partners investigated methods of turning trash into liquid fuels.

The lowest cost process that we could identify produced a liquid fuel that would be a good substitute for diesel fuel.

Unfortunately the cost of production was over $10.00 per gallon. Too much to be economically competitive.

Answer 4

Sorry Johnnie once again... but

The cost of a waste power plant is around 15,000$/kWh

For coal power plant: 1,000$

It´s not that the environmentalists don´t want it.. its simply expensive.
Moreover, compared to recycling, it is often suboptimal.

The best converters so far for trash into energy are cement kilns which burn at close to 1500°C. Trash replaces coal and reduces the CO2 emission. The dust is then part of the cement and even heavy metals become part of the cement and are bound in the matrix... and not released in the environment.

Answer 5

Look up Model Landfills.

Each class I Landfill emits a stinky liquid called Letchete. It is
quite hazardous, and produces methane gas.

Most landfills, just burn this gas off like fancy tiki torches at a smelly bar b que....lol

But, some Waste Management Landfills have begun converting Methane into "Natural Gas", and liquid fuel for Heavy Equipment.

Free Stink except for the pipes....

Good Luck

Answer 6

definite there are various approaches all cost $ many times greater effective than the cost of coal or oil for the same power even though it reduces pollution and waste and is extremely on your cost variety you frequently have some waste nature recycles each and everything yet human beings interior the commercial revolution take new textile wood , iron ore coal , make stuff and then throw the "waste" away of course this can't pass on perpetually

Answer 7

If you could find an economical method of capturing the bi-products of decomposition, you would have more money than Bill Gates. Good luck, I hope you succeed.

Answer 8

I have a friend that bought an outside burner for wood and pellets and he bundles all is paper goods and saves them to burn in his stove with his wood.Plus he has a trash compactor that all he does is toss in a bag to burn!He also goes to stores and collects cardboard boxes and cuts and bundles them too.And he also uses ear corn from fields left over from picking! He said he has gone from burning around 15 loads of wood down to half by doing this!

Answer 9

The solution to trash is create less.
The solution to energy is use less.

The gluttony needs to stop. Put that in your paper.

Answer 10

Much of it could be burned to produce electricity but the environmentalist have fought this all the way. The chimney's have scrubbers on them so most of the pollution would not get in our air.