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I wonder if they even cost much, after all a furnace is not some terribly new technology. In Copenhagen they seem to have excess money to turn it into a giant s
by return0 13y ago
I wonder if they even cost much, after all a furnace is not some terribly new technology. In Copenhagen they seem to have excess money to turn it into a giant smoking ski slope: http://www.archdaily.com/339893/bigs-waste-to-energy-plant-breaks-ground-breaks-schemas/ http://www.archdaily.com/339893/bigs-waste-to-energy-plant-b...
- aetherson 13y agoA brief web search didn't come up with any cost estimates of the Swedish facilities, but this page lists the cost of a singaporean one at about $500 million. http://www.keppelseghers.com/en/content.aspx?sid=3028 http://www.keppelseghers.com/en/content.aspx?sid=3028 It's possible that that's drastically different than the Swedish ones, but I fundamentally do not believe that any power generation facility is a terribly cheap facility to build or maintain. If you do, I suggest that that is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
- nixy 13y agoOne of the newest waste burning plants in Sweden, Block 5[1], cost $150mm (SEK 1bn) to construct in 2005-2006. [1] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala_Block_5 http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala_Block_5