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I recently found a few articles on alternative energies extrapolated from garbage. Yes, our waste re-purposed. On company called Fulcrum BioEnergy will be one of the first to commercially produce ethanol from municipal waste. I, personally, am all about green ONLY when it is produced privately and made available on the open market. If it has the stink of government force, I’m out. This is impart because it is difficult to gauge the success and viability of solutions when the solution is forced on people. We don’t know if they really want it or if something better ought to be developed. There is little drive to develop it further as well with little competitive incentive. This is aside from the ethics of government force which I will save for now. From the article:
If you extrapolate the technology out to a national level, it could one day produce more than 1 billion gallons of ethanol annually…
the company, already benefiting from its other ethanol business using different feedstocks, says the price of the fuel produced could be as low as 50 cents a gallon.
If companies such as Fulcrum can commercially and profitably produce fuels that will drive costs down to 50 cents per gallon, all while not affecting corn prices and without government intervention or mandates, then lets get behind them privately and individually by buying their products when released! Check out this article on GreenBeat regarding them.
There are others experimenting with trash energy such as South Korea here. I’m not advocating any economic support on this one, only that it is being done and as far as I can gather, done as an experiment for possibilities. I may be wrong in that but I’m all about developing technologies…
