Just what we need
This is the kind of "trash talk" we can all use, especially here in the United States. While burning trash is not exactly the cleanest way to produce electricity, it is, as I understand it, cleaner than coal. And trash is everywhere, meaning each municipality could produce most of it's own power instead of relying on it being transmitted over long distances from remote facilities. This would take a lot of pressure off the national grid...if it would be allowed. My guess is that this solution to the massive problem of trash has been suggested before but only allowed in a few places by forward thinking pols. That, or this solution is regulated so heavily that no one has the money to devote to it. Or wants to. Yet, imagine: states or municipalities getting into bidding wars over trash!
