tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107890.post8722435509058982427..comments2023-12-19T03:46:02.750-05:00Comments on The Vail Spot: Energy, What To Do?Rich Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17858759001158247969noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107890.post-27603968432692522512009-11-25T18:17:16.419-05:002009-11-25T18:17:16.419-05:00There is an incinerator in Bay County, Florida as ...There is an incinerator in Bay County, Florida as well...though I've never looked into how efficient it is.Rich Vailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17858759001158247969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107890.post-23488634492155525302009-11-25T09:48:46.519-05:002009-11-25T09:48:46.519-05:00You said: Additionally, by recycling many of the p...You said: Additionally, by recycling many of the products we use, we decrease the amount of energy necessary to produce those same items.<br /><br />As it turns out, this is false (you've fallen for the lie that's been spread about this, so it isn't your fault). For instance, compare the price of two pads of paper, one recycled, the other not. The recycled one is more expensive because it takes MORE energy to produce than doing so from scratch. At the post-consumer level, aluminum is about the only item that it is energy effective to recycle.<br /><br />What we really need to do instead of recycling is produce more trash burning power plants. They reduce the land fill volume required by 90%, produce inexpensive electricity, and are very clean in their operation due to their air scrubbers (the one near St. Petersburg, FL, for instance, was found by the EPA to have exhaust that was cleaner than the ambient air; in other words, not only was it NOT polluting, it was removing pollution that was already present in the air; hard to beat that).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com