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In article <B6934142.31BE1%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com>, John Higdon 
<no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> wrote:

> in article 3A6E0034.6ED66552@quiotix.com, Jeffrey Siegal  wrote:
> 
> > Burning wood is considered green in some sense.  It is renewable because
> > you can grow more wood.  It also does not contibute to global warming
> > because growing replacement trees removes the carbon (dioxide/monoxide)
> > released by burning the wood.
> 
> An aside to this is the matter of paper recycling. We would be better off,
> environmentally, to put waste paper in a landfill and grow more trees for
> paper manufacturer. But you cannot argue science with "environmentalists".

Good point.

By the way, I did a calculation some years ago about what could be done 
with the daily trash of a few hundred million Americans. Calculating how 
many pounds per year per person, factoring in how much it costs--as a 
basis for calculation--to ship a 2500-pound car the average distance, my 
conclusion was that all of the trash in the U.S. could be economically 
shipped to the Meteor Crater in Arizona and dumped in.

The level would rise by about a meter per year.

No ground water below it. Out in the desert. The trash can just compact 
and compact and sit.

Should be good for a hundred years. Maybe by then there will be another 
meteor crater to fill.

If the Meteor Crater is too valuable a national asset to fill, can 
backfill some of those huge copper mines out west. Or coal digs.

And there is no reason to transport it _all_ to one site. I did that 
calculation just to show it was economically and technically feasible. 

This says that waste disposal, supposedly one of our "pressing" 
problems, is not such a big deal at all, were people to think outside 
the box.


--Tim May

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