On Jul 25, 2:05 pm, al Guacamole
lava.net> wrote:> On Jul 23, 3:35 pm, teslafan
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi from Huntington Beach, SoCal! Am into alternative sustainable enrgy
>> (See the alternative energy
websitewww.Peswiki.comNikolatesla /
>> Global Energy Independence day which I founded on Nikola teslas
>> Birthdate July 10th and which Los Angeles has adopted and made the
>> ENTIRE month of July Energy Independence Month") Now, useing trash as
>> fuel? Why not? some trash can be used for a low emession fuel. Boil
>> water make steam make energy! Why isnt someone doing this in Hawai'i?
>
> Actually, we are. This is why the city dump near Kahe Point is lasting
> so long. Trash is burned to generate power and only the ash is put
> into the dump. BTW I share your admiration of Tesla. Not only an
> inventor like Edison, he made a number scientific discoveries.
A trash incinerator was proposed for Hilo, but there's so much
opposition
that for the time being it's been either dropped or just about
dropped.
In spite of our landfill on this side being just about full and a
rather large
fraction of our electricity being generated from imported (at least
into
the state) oil. Everybody wants the electricity, but all new
generating
plants meet with strong opposition, be it trash incineration or wood
processing waste incineration. One of the plants would be re-using
the site of the former Hamakua Coast Processing plants that used to
generate electricity from bagasse left over from sugar processing, but
the former sugar cane field in the meantime were sold as "Gentleman
Farm" estates.
Aloha,
Maren
