Denmark's $34 Billion Green Energy Island

[Gaugamela]

[Fritz Walter]

1. Brilliant!

Or, as the Danes would put it, “ Strålende!”

Let’s put an identical Green Energy Artificial Island on our Atlantic coast, well within sight of Mar a Cesspool.

Can you imagine how Hair Furor would react?

[sandensea]

2. Hair Furor - and his pals at the MIC

Because in this country, as you know, the only time $34 billion in federal funds is spent on a project of any kind, it's almost always some defense boondoggle.

That might be changing now.

[pansypoo53219]

3. BUTBUTBUT SOSCIALISM! finally energy from garbage.

[Celerity]

6. In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/sweden-garbage-used-for-fuel.html

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw drops its moldering harvest down a 10-story shaft into a boiler that is hotter than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. A fetid odor emanates from plastic trash bags discarded by hundreds of thousands of homes.

The process continues 24 hours a day to help fuel this power plant run by Tekniska Verken, a municipal government company in Linköping, a city 125 miles south of Stockholm. It is one of Sweden’s 34 “waste-to-energy” power plants. Instead of burning coal or gas, this power plant burns trash. “We don’t look at it as waste,” said Klas Gustafsson, vice president of the company. “We use the energy content of waste as much as possible.”

Four tons of garbage contains energy equivalent to one ton of oil, 1.6 tons of coal, or five tons of wood waste, according to the company. Sweden is known for strikingly reducing the trash sent to its landfills. Less than 1 percent of household waste in this Scandinavian country finds it way to landfills, according to Avfall Sverige, the Swedish Waste Management and Recycling association.

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Waste-to-Energy

Sweden offers innovative solutions and extensive know-how in waste collection and recycling. We are the global leader when it comes to dealing with and recycling waste. The waste-to-energy systems we have developed have given waste a value.

https://smartcitysweden.com/focus-areas/climate-energy-environment/waste-to-energy/

Sweden has extensive and efficient waste management systems in place and municipal waste in landfills is almost non-existent. About 99,3 % of all household waste is recycled or recovered as energy, putting Sweden at the top in this area.

Waste as a resource

Our waste is treated in integrated systems and recycled as district heating, electricity, biogas, biofertilizer and materials. Different treatment methods are used depending on the nature of the waste so as to make it possible to use the waste as a resource.

Incineration is a method ideally suited to waste that cannot be recycled in any other way. It is an efficient and environmentally safe method for recovering energy from waste, and provides both district heating and electricity in Sweden.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Bravo!

Getting closer and closer to what amounts to perpetual motion, exponential energy growth with little pollution, almost like the elusive nuclear fusion. Never thought I'd see it ... what minds and political will to make it happen. The US is so far behind.

[byronius]

5. Inspiring as hell.