The British really do get the coolest gadgets, Queen Elizabeth 2 to name one and now they have a garbage truth that’s running off of what it collects. Garbage truck running on garbage doesn’t it seem like some kind of odd loop that shouldn’t exist it just seems astonishing. Then again I supposed it is a bit like people with jobs in banking that also go to banks as customers, but not quite as odd.
This new breakthrough in Huddersfield they basically modified a 3.5 ton Smith Edison Ford garbage truck. It drives around and picks up garbage like every other garbage truck around the world. The difference comes in place after they start heading back where instead of going to a dump it heads to a Energy from Waste power station and recycling station. The station they return to burns the garbage and creates electricity that recharges the truck for the next day’s route. The garbage collected also produces nearly 10 megawatts of excess electricity per day that is added back into the grid.
So 1 day of garbage collection nets 10 megawatts of power and is all handled by vehicles that require no fossil fuels! WTF IS WRONG WITH THE US! We’re all about “green” power now but somehow this idea hasn’t hit every state in the US? Why? Why is this something that we haven’t seen come state side. I mean their doesn’t seem to be any outage, it turns garbage collecting into a money making green enterprise, and the vehicle chugs along collecting and recycling at 50 miles per hour, sure seems like the perfect solution to me.
Source: Physorg
