@puddleglum1066, Here in Fairfax County, VA an incinerator burns unrecycled trash to electricity also. It also separates metals and glass automatically before burning the organics. A bunch of saleable stuff is distilled from the smoke by the scrubbers too. It is a very impressive and sophisticated plant.
One thing such a plant ccould do is actually make oil. Burning the organics in reduced oxygen creates CO+H2 which is called “coal gas” or “wood gas” and turns into oil under heat and pressure in the presence of an Iron catalyst. This is how the Nazis made gas and diesel for their war machine despite having no oil resources (they had lots of coal).
Towns used to be heated and lighted by coal/wood gas, which was then called “town gas”, until natural gas took its place (the CO is toxic, much nastier than natural gas in the event of leaks).
@puddleglum1066, Here in Fairfax County, VA an incinerator burns unrecycled trash to electricity also. It also separates metals and glass automatically before burning the organics. A bunch of saleable stuff is distilled from the smoke by the scrubbers too. It is a very impressive and sophisticated plant.
One thing such a plant ccould do is actually make oil. Burning the organics in reduced oxygen creates CO+H2 which is called “coal gas” or “wood gas” and turns into oil under heat and pressure in the presence of an Iron catalyst. This is how the Nazis made gas and diesel for their war machine despite having no oil resources (they had lots of coal).
Towns used to be heated and lighted by coal/wood gas, which was then called “town gas”, until natural gas took its place (the CO is toxic, much nastier than natural gas in the event of leaks).