Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Biofuel kills Harrisburg
The city of Harrisburg is filing bankruptcy because of a failed 'biofuel' project that was supposed to be all nice and green and profitable, but turned out to be a huge loss.
This seems to be a recurring theme with biofuel shit. Recently the Univ of South Carolina had to abandon a wildly expensive trash-to-energy generator when it was not only useless but explosive.
Spokane has been running a waste-to-energy plant for 20 years, without explosions or total bankruptcy, but it's been a losing proposition most of the time.
Clearly it's an all-around bad idea at the municipal scale. On the scale of a single industrial plant, it's usually a good idea, but hardly new. Manufacturers have been powering or heating their plants by burning leftover wood scraps for 200 years. They didn't call it biofuel, they just called it efficient use of resources.
This seems to be a recurring theme with biofuel shit. Recently the Univ of South Carolina had to abandon a wildly expensive trash-to-energy generator when it was not only useless but explosive.
Spokane has been running a waste-to-energy plant for 20 years, without explosions or total bankruptcy, but it's been a losing proposition most of the time.
Clearly it's an all-around bad idea at the municipal scale. On the scale of a single industrial plant, it's usually a good idea, but hardly new. Manufacturers have been powering or heating their plants by burning leftover wood scraps for 200 years. They didn't call it biofuel, they just called it efficient use of resources.
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