Subj : dirtiest: `Green' biomass power plant
To   : August Abolins
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Oct 15 2021 03:54:44

  Re: dirtiest: `Green' biomass power plant
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Thu Oct 14 2021 07:35 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Thursday 14.10.21 - 11:22, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:
 > 
 >  >> I've seen tires tires used for the basis of homes or retaining
 >  >> walls (tires filled with concrete or other compacted material).
 > 
 >  A> I think they can also be used for making lightened
 >  A> concrete. And asphalt for roads. It is not like used tires
 >  A> are useless.
 > 
 > I have a pile on my property that I wouln't mind repurposing
 > for a retaining wall to stop some errosion.
 > 
 >  A> But yeah a lot of that material could just be burnt for the
 >  A> heat if it wasn't polluting and toxic as heck.
 > 
 > If burned at a high enough temp, don't the toxins get reduced
 > too?  Isn't that what an incinerator is designed for?
 > --
 >   ../|ug

"Reduced" and "Reduced to acceptable levels" are different things.

I am not an expert in plastic burning, but it you need to burn a too high a temperature it may stop being
energetically proffitable because you end up wasting more energy in cracking the toxins than in, you
know, whetever you want the heat for.

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