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By TC Daily Planet
March 08, 2007
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The Burning Question: coal, garbage, biomass and sustainable energy


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rocktenn garbage burning

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2008-01-02 16:33.
My question is simple: if "biofuel" ends up being "refuse derived fuel" is someone going to sort through the garbage and pull out all the batteries (alkaline and otherwise), fluorescent light bulbs people throw away by mistake, dried up latex paint, meth chemicals, etc?

This series puts me in mind

Submitted by Bill Kahn (not verified) on Sat, 2007-03-10 00:39.
This series puts me in mind of a discussion that we had on the Minneapolis Issues Forum of e-Democracy about the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) in downtown Minneapolis five or six weeks ago. The possibility of utilizing a new technology at HERC known as solid waste pyrolysis was raised. Present HERC techonology was state of the art in 1989 when this incinerator went into operation, but it is inconceivable to me that things have not improved since then. With these improvements in mind, I queried Hennepin County officials regarding technology changes at HERC, but I've not heard back from them. If this project at Rock-Tenn goes the Refuse Derived Fuel route, a garbage burner like HERC, just how up-to-date can we expect it to be?

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