Toronto Garbage
Was reaeding through a piece in Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71757-0.html?tw=wn_index_9). At the rate at which the facility in the article generates electrcity through its incineration process, and through the sale of the excess electricity at current Ontario rates (5.0 cents per 1000kWh), it should pay for itself in under 10 years plus however long the financing costs take to pay for themselves.
Why could this not be done in the GTA/Niagara Pen? Build a facility along the Hamilton Industrial section on the bay....ferry waste from Toronto, Oshawa....drive in from Niagara, K-W perhaps....and then tap it into the electrical grid right in the area that most uses it. As part of the agreement to house the facility (who wants to say that they live in the city that has the big garbage site?) - offer the excess heat produced to either the steel industry in the Hamilton or link it into the City's Community Energy System.
Time to think creative and big as things move along....this could be part of it.
Why could this not be done in the GTA/Niagara Pen? Build a facility along the Hamilton Industrial section on the bay....ferry waste from Toronto, Oshawa....drive in from Niagara, K-W perhaps....and then tap it into the electrical grid right in the area that most uses it. As part of the agreement to house the facility (who wants to say that they live in the city that has the big garbage site?) - offer the excess heat produced to either the steel industry in the Hamilton or link it into the City's Community Energy System.
Time to think creative and big as things move along....this could be part of it.
posted by The Avatar | 11:14 a.m.
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