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by Joe David
Special to the Rappahannock News
A 78-page study concluded recently that it was economically and technically possible for Warrenton and Fauquier County to convert unusable landfill trash into electricity and fuel by employing the latest gasification technology, According to the feasibility study just completed for Mayor George Fitch and the Town of Warrenton, this move will lead to local-level energy independence and rid the community of wastes and residues normally buried.
EPA has been following the progress of Mayor Fitch’s project, which it wholeheartedly endorses. By applying new technology to reducing wastes and residues, local communities will be able to produce environmentally friendly energy at much higher yield than the traditional combustion or mass-bum technology, which EPA has long discouraged.
Mayor Fitch plans to take different kinds of unusable wastes and residues, normally buned as landfill, and convert it into green electricity and fuel for his community. The biomass plant or bio-refinery will be located at the local landfill where it will process about 70,000 tons of household trash (municipal solid waste) and 30,000 tons of commercial debris annually normally
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