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That's just magical thinking. Nothing suggests that it is in the realm of possibility. What is the energy potential in the materials in a landfill? How much is
by grive 7y ago
That's just magical thinking. Nothing suggests that it is in the realm of possibility.
What is the energy potential in the materials in a landfill? How much is wasted by scouring them and trying to properly extract it? Compared to preventing the capture of those materials there in the first place?
Putting the survival of our species on the possibility of some pixie dust is not rational. It is hard to face the truth, but burying your head in the sand is counter-productive.
- aeternus 7y agoIt's not magical thinking, landfill mining has been in-use since the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining If certain resources do get more sparse, it will easily become economically viable to expand landfill mining and we already have the technology required to do so. At the end of the day, it's an energy question more than anything. With cheap solar plus the fact that landfills produce their own free energy (methane) there is no need to be alarmist and consider them a threat to our species.