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Waste-to-energy plants have been utilized for a couple of decades in Sweden. There's several new plants in the USA. I think it's more likely that regulated and
by convivialdingo 4y ago
Waste-to-energy plants have been utilized for a couple of decades in Sweden. There's several new plants in the USA.
I think it's more likely that regulated and aggregated pollution management will be at least somewhat successful. These plants will buy up vast sums of waste that would otherwise often get into the environment and oceans. Honestly with good air scrubbing it could replace many of our coal plants with better air quality outcomes.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoHN is busy telling me over and over again that power from coal and natural gas is dirty and cannot feasibly be filtered to be clean, so the only way to go is nuclear, which doesn't have any problems at all. How come we can burn plastic of all things in a clean way?
- selectodude 4y agoWe can’t. But plastic has very few good replacements. Coal and natgas have excellent replacements.
- govg 4y agoAs the other person points out, with power there are alternatives that are basically 1:1 (electricity is fungible for the most part). With plastic, we do not have readily available replacements for every kind out there, and if we burn them in controlled, concentrated points, then (hopefully) we can scrub and filter the air at the point of emissions.
- malfist 4y agoYour comment has excessive hyperbole and isn't constructive to discourse. Even pro nuclear folks will recognize that it has drawbacks and needs to be managed carefully. They believe that those drawbacks are less than that of fossil fuels and that nuclear can be ramped up faster than renewables.