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"Smart burning" is still burning. Why not convert it to oil? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729477
by FrozenVoid 7y ago
"Smart burning" is still burning. Why not convert it to oil?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729477
- wolfi1 7y agoif you use it for combined heat and power the efficiency is far higher
- m4rtink 7y agoThats what the Brno (a Czech city with ~400 000 thousand inhabitants) does with its trash - its incinerated in a modern incinerator plant, yielding a couple dozen MW of electricity and enough heat to run the city wide distroct heating system during the summer. During the winter it contributes about 20%.
- PeterisP 7y agoAnd what will you do with that oil afterwards? It'll get burned as well, just not that cleanly.