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Re:Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of... by ericd on Thursday May 02, 2013 @05:41PM (#5647374)
Which would largely turn back into CO2 once the bacteria do their thing.
Re:Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of... by niels_olson on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:22PM (#5647569)
Erm, I believe it would turn back into oil and coal, etc.
Re:Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of... by ericd on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:22PM (#5647855)
We're not entirely clear on how that works, and our best estimates are that it takes on the order of hundreds of thousands of years and requires quite a bit of pressure. The proposal above would basically be a deep landfill, and generally what will come from landfills in our lifetime is methane, CO2, dirty water, and a lot of garbage sitting around.