There was a recent (Couple of months ago now) report about a new You Beaut Pilot Green power generation plant in SA.
Burn all our household waste in the plant and use the heat to generate steam to run electricity generators.
Now comes the Intriguing bit. Pump all the CO2 emissions into Poly tunnels for hothouse food plants to use to turn CO2 into oxygen and of course food.
Has me beat.
Peter_n_Margaret said
12:17 PM Nov 26, 2019
Yuglamron wrote:
Has me beat.
Why?
Cheers,
Peter
Yuglamron said
02:13 PM Nov 26, 2019
The report does go on to say a CO2 rich atmosphere is good for plant growth.
I've tried to find the report again but not successful yet.
If you Google these waste incineration to produce power you get thousands of these plants around the world. The only new bit seemed to be the Poly tunnels to utilise the CO2 produced.My take on it was they were hunting for Govt Funds to assist them.
Peter_n_Margaret said
07:37 PM Nov 26, 2019
Yuglamron wrote:
The report does go on to say a CO2 rich atmosphere is good for plant growth.
Absolutely correct.
That is the other side of the global heating problem which is caused by increasing CO2 levels. We are not only producing more and more CO2 by burning fossil fuels, but we are also chopping down the forests that reduce CO2 in the atmosphere and make O2.
Double bad whammy.
Cheers,
Peter
bgt said
11:55 AM Nov 27, 2019
My understanding is that the UN and NASA have just confirmed there is now more Forest's on earth. Go figure!!
Forests still cover about 30 percent of the worlds land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) of forest, according to the World Bankan area larger than South Africa. Since humans started cutting down forests, 46 percent of trees have been felled, according to a 2015 study in the journal Nature. About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise.
Cheers,
Peter
MapleHunter25 said
04:30 PM Dec 5, 2019
We are a bit behind the times frankly.
Did you know Vienna has had an incinerator (architect designed artwork really) for decades that burns the cities waste (and scrubs the emissions) to produce the energy for central heating distributed to buildings in all districts of the old city?
There was a recent (Couple of months ago now) report about a new You Beaut Pilot Green power generation plant in SA.
Burn all our household waste in the plant and use the heat to generate steam to run electricity generators.
Now comes the Intriguing bit. Pump all the CO2 emissions into Poly tunnels for hothouse food plants to use to turn CO2 into oxygen and of course food.
Has me beat.
Why?
Cheers,
Peter
The report does go on to say a CO2 rich atmosphere is good for plant growth.
I've tried to find the report again but not successful yet.
If you Google these waste incineration to produce power you get thousands of these plants around the world. The only new bit seemed to be the Poly tunnels to utilise the CO2 produced.My take on it was they were hunting for Govt Funds to assist them.
Absolutely correct.
That is the other side of the global heating problem which is caused by increasing CO2 levels. We are not only producing more and more CO2 by burning fossil fuels, but we are also chopping down the forests that reduce CO2 in the atmosphere and make O2.
Double bad whammy.
Cheers,
Peter
https://www.sealevel.info/co2_and_ch4.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/
Cheers,
Peter
We are a bit behind the times frankly.
Did you know Vienna has had an incinerator (architect designed artwork really) for decades that burns the cities waste (and scrubs the emissions) to produce the energy for central heating distributed to buildings in all districts of the old city?