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Two plants in Idaho could turn 250 tons of trash a day into power for 10,000 homes

February 15, 2011 /

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"Burying our waste is the second-dumbest thing humans do," said Mahaffey, CEO of Dynamis Energy http://www.dynamisenergy.com/ , which already has built a plant to turn trash into power in Alaska.

(The No. 1 dumbest thing, he said, is always up for debate.)

Landfills across the country are filling up and the march is on to increase renewable energy sources. Ada County buries about 2,000 tons of trash every day at its Foothills landfill — trash that Eagle businessman Lloyd Mahaffey sees as fuel just waiting to become clean electricity.

BY CYNTHIA SEWELL – [email protected]

Full Story: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/02/15/1528211/garbage-in-electricity-out.html

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