Garbage to power 20,000 Sydney homes

[jpak]

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=145&ContentID=64942

Sydney’s garbage will be converted into enough green electricity to power 20,000 homes, the NSW government has announced.

EnergyAustralia has agreed to buy the 25 megawatts of electricity which will be produced by Veolia Environmental Service’s Woodlawn bioreactor, a landfill site located at a disused mine site near Goulburn.

Energy Minister Ian Macdonald says bioreactors like Woodlawn are better than normal landfill sites because they maximise gas production.

“Landfill gases contain methane, which is 21 times more potent in its greenhouse warming potential than carbon dioxide,” Mr Macdonald said.

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[kestrel91316]

1. Sydney ought to tap into the methane from its wastewater treatment facilities.

And the remaining sludge makes GREAT fertilizer, or could even be made into biochar for Terra Preta-style permanent soil improvements.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Their must be enough garbage from the Bush administration

[NNadir]

3. Many of the world's largest "renewable energy" facilities are garbage.

Back in the 1980's, Good Ole' Alfonse D'Amato built a "world's largest" "renewable" energy facility in the only Democratic district in Nassau County, NY.

He seemed to feel that Democrats were especially deserving of breathing dioxins.

Our "renewables will save us" rocket scientists seem not to have figured out that a huge percentage of what is in landfills is petroleum derived.