The Department of Energy says the decorative squash on your porch is helping to destroy the planet.
According to the Energy Department’s website, a majority of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. each year end up in municipal landfills, many of them just after Halloween.
From the website:
At landfills, [municipal solid waste] decomposes and eventually turns into methane — a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The U.S. produces some 254 million tons of municipal solid waste each year.
But the Energy Department also said there is some good news. The government has partnered with U.S. industry to investigate ways to turn municipal waste into usable energy via biorefineries.
From the DOE website:
One of them, Fulcrum Bioenergy’s biorefinery in McCarran, Nevada, will use MSW as a feedstock and use gasification and Fischer-Tröpsch conversion technology to produce “drop-in” biofuel for the military.
Fulcrum Bioenergy was one of three companies selected to receive federal investments for commercial-scale biorefinery projects to produce military-grade biofuel that can be directly substituted for petroleum-derived jet and diesel fuel. Another one of these projects, from Emerald Biofuels, will use a different type of waste — fats, oils, and greases — as a feedstock that will be hydro-treated and upgraded at its refinery on the Gulf Coast.
Once in full operation, these two biorefineries will have a combined capacity to produce 92 million gallons of advanced biofuel per year for the military. Fulcrum has since received a $30 million investment from United Airlines and has entered into a long-term jet fuel supply agreement with Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific.
This is actually a pretty cool project for the government to be working on. It’s just a shame that the government uses global warming as the pretext for so many of its actions. After all, who wouldn’t be in favor of reducing the amount of trash in U.S. communities while simultaneously reducing energy prices?
Preppers have long been familiar with small-scale waste gasification and how it could become beneficial in a grid-down scenario.
As for your pumpkin, toss it in the compost heap.
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