If all US smokestack waste were recycled, it could replace 30 per cent of the electricity produced by burning fossil fuel.
Worldwatch Institute

Solar has many uses

by Deb Powers

Hindu Business Online's article about India's expansion in solar thermal energy use is worth reading for several reasons, including its clear explanation of how recovering waste energy from fossil fuel can affect our energy bottom line.
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Trash Thursday - Biomass Energy

Poo Power Packs a Punch

by Deb Powers

Credit: actruncale@stock.xchangForgive the alliteration, please. There's something about the subject of poo that brings out the adolescent boy in all of us, and I'm not immune to it. Call it poo, manure, waste, biomass - it's all one and the same, and it's part of the answer to our energy future. It's also the ultimate recycling strategy - recycling the waste that we've already recycled through Mother Nature's most efficient recycling machine - the digestive system.