:dubious: And meddle with established desert ecosystems? Think twice.
Look pal I just want to put back a little of what your goats ate, take it easy.
Here in Minneapolis, we do that. All the garbage is either recycled or burned to produce energy. Even the ashes are sold as farming fertilizer.
Now they want to expand the capacity of that, but people are opposing it, saying the smoke is polluting. So they want to shut it down completely. Thus sending the garbage back to landfills, with pollution leaking into the ground water, and flowing down the Mississippi River to pollute all the states downriver.
If they were smarter, these people would encourage expansion of the incinerator, provided that they also upgraded the pollution controls on the smokestacks. It’s a lot easier to control the pollution from one smokestack than from dozens of leaky landfills scattered all over.
See, we could transform our deserts right now with our wonderful fission technology that provides unlimited energy. Unfortunately, it isn’t cheap and there doesn’t seem to be anything about fusion that would make it cheaper.
A tabletop Mr. Fusion would be nice, but why don’t we already have a Mr. Fission on our tabletops?
:o Ermm, pardon me, Fear, your grandmother does have wheels and they don’t call her a streetcar, they call her “Rollerblade Adelaide.” I’d best say no more.
Proprietary technology doesn’t burn it in an incinerator, but goes through a Fischer–Tropsch process and turns any organic waste into bio-diesel. The Fischer–Tropsch process has been around since before WWII, but there are various methods to make it more efficient, and the byproduct is not CO2, but rather carbon black, which is sell-able. No direct air pollution as it is self-contained.
Well, almost! Does the SNAP family of generators count?
Of course, you realize that the Republic of Canada is no more than a stop on the way to the New 10 Northern States of the Union.
[cue “God Save the Queen”]
Oooh, SNAP!
I want one for my smart-phone!