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Whether we should burn, recycle, or dump plastic into a landfill depends entirely on the relative amount of energy generated and CO2 emitted by those different
by seoaeu 4y ago
Whether we should burn, recycle, or dump plastic into a landfill depends entirely on the relative amount of energy generated and CO2 emitted by those different options. Just because plastic and natural gas both are/come from hydrocarbons doesn’t mean that burning them produces anywhere near the same amount of emissions per MWh, or that the economics would be at all close.
And if you are proposing the construction of new power plants to burn trash, your justification also has to explain why that would be preferable to building wind/solar instead
- carlmr 4y ago>And if you are proposing the construction of new power plants to burn trash, your justification also has to explain why that would be preferable to building wind/solar instead An easy to grasp reason is that we still can't viably store energy for long enough periods for wind and solar alone to work. Also solar and wind might not work so well everywhere.
- seoaeu 4y agoThat’s a favorite talking point of climate deniers, but even once storage becomes a concern this proposal is only one of many possible options. What I’m pointing out is that this thread doesn’t actually contain any quantitative argument why burning trash is competitive with, let alone superior to, credible alternatives