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Trash Zapper

Series: June 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30

Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?! Read the full description.
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Isla_earth_inlay Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?! It sounds like science fiction, but that’s the plan in Saint Lucie County, Florida. A $425 million plant is being built that will use plasma arcs to vaporize trash at temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun...

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Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?! It sounds like science fiction, but that’s the plan in Saint Lucie County, Florida. A $425 million plant is being built that will use plasma arcs to vaporize trash at temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun...

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