Burning Sewage

I enjoy Russell Roberts, and find comparison of him with Al Gore even more entertaining. One can compare the Gore position on the environment with Roberts position; do absolutely everything no matter what the Cost, and do nothing at all because it will subtract from Business Profits. This competition will eventually devolve to Popular support, which will translate into a fight between Money and Social Consciousness. The resultant beast will be a strange freak, idealism mixed with Rent-Seeking. Gain for the environment will be small, and accomplished only with great Cost.

Are there alternatives to such cynical Results? Study of environmental issues will assure that coal-powered electrical plants will have to adopt efficient Scrubbers to eliminate CO2 emissions, as well as a number of other deadly, or undesirable, particle emissions. Power companies will have demanded and received extreme financial assistance from the Government, and the surrounding environment of the Plants cannot expect the Plants will maintain the Scrubber system at the Peak condition to grant Pure Air; entirely due to the Costs of the Scrubber system and its filters. The Scrubber systems can actually be expected to work at only about 50% efficiency after 8 years, due to the Cost of filtration

How can We change this dynamic?

Here is one Suggestion I would advise exploring. Coal is prized by the Power companies because it is plentiful, and therefore of low Cost in comparison with other fuels. Coal, though, burns at a very high temperature; actually such a high temperature that vast quantities of Heat is lost in the Generation process. Power companies might tell the Reader that they would mix the coal with other substances to burn, utilizing the Coal to maintain combustion and Heat levels, if alternative fuel was available to be burned at low Cost; something which Power companies cannot currently find. Wood cannot supply a high replacement content, or could Garbage. No one has considered concentrated Sewage. Concentration of Sewage would be cheaper than Waste Treatment, and concentrated Sewage could be transported in Pump tank trailers.

A practical experiment on Sewage’s concentrated use as fuel would have to be made, but there is no reason to doubt such Sewage could be concentrated and transported without major environmental hazard or economic Cost. There is no reason to forestall a 70-30 percentage ratio of Sewage to Coal being burned at sufficient temperatures to generate electrical power. The Cost of Sewage treatment and transport could be made much cheaper than Coal extraction, and save major Costs of Waste Treatment. Local environments and Courts would be quite sure to insist Power companies maintained their Air treatment facilities at a constant basis; one only has to smell untreated burning Sewage once to understand. The Power companies make money, the suppliers of Sewage save and have additional gains from selling what is currently a offensive waste product, and the total environment is better served. lgl