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> You make hot water with cheap natural gas. If you're lucky enough, you can even use geothermal. In Denmark it's getting pretty common to produce it via trash
by _delirium 12y ago
> You make hot water with cheap natural gas. If you're lucky enough, you can even use geothermal.
In Denmark it's getting pretty common to produce it via trash incinerators. They produce a kind of heat that is apparently that not great for electricity generation, but pretty good for district-heat production. So much so that the price of unsorted municipal garbage in both Denmark and Sweden has risen in the past few years, because it has become a valuable energy source.
- dredmorbius 12y agoCHP (combined heat and power) or district heating, typically, though I'm not sure which applies in your case. Most areas which have implemented a trash-to-energy program pretty soon run out of high-grade suitable trash and resort to imports. Entropy always wins.