Harry van Moorst is a veteran community activist. In the 1960s, he protested against the Vietnam War. In the '70s and early '80s, he was active in the anti-uranium movement. In the '90s, he helped lead a successful campaign against a toxic dump proposed for Werribee, in Melbourne’s outer-western suburbs.
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| Harry van Moorst, from the Western Region Environment Centre, believes residual household waste is better off going to a waste to energy plant than landfill. |
Van Moorst is exactly the sort of local warrior whom the proponents of a waste to energy plant feared could be a thorn in their side.
But instead he is a cautious supporter of the proposed plant.
The plan, by Recovered Energy Australia, would convert household rubbish (from the bins that go to landfill not recycling bins) into a gas that would generate enough electricity to power 20,000 homes.
Read the story by Jewel Topsfield from The Age - “Should Australia be turning its rubbish into electricity?”
European cities have excellent airshed flushing of nanoparticulates (10^-9 > 10^-7metre range) to the Nth Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoparticle
ReplyDeleteAustralian cities like Melbourne and Sydney are basins and the Sydney Basin takes 7 days to clear any new emissions.
'Nanoparticulate vectoring' is a byproduct of any waste incineration. Ultra High temperatures create metal and organic particulates in the 10^-9m range that when absorbed in the lungs attach dierctly to red blood cells and (Prof Doherty's research & Nobel prize) marks them for 'apoptosis' or deletion.
Chronic exposures such as in cities like Sydney And Melbourne will lead to Leukaemia contraction especially in young susceptible children.
No suburb will be spared. Suburbs like Killara, Point Piper & Toorak will all get a full share of the nanoparticulate vectors from these incinerators.
Research papers covering combustion to airshed to medical consequences are available to verify the dangers to major basin structured cities in Australia.
The only state that doesn't have 7-day polluted basins is in Northern Tasmania. Maybe that is an option for all Australian waste to electricity disposal.
Mind you, Sth America and Sth Africa will cop the lot & that could be a problem. However both these countries produce a large pollution footprint into the Roaring 40's.
One more point. No filtration system can extract particulates in the 10^-7 to 10^-9 metre range. Its impossible on an industrial scale.
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