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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Is there any safe incineration technology?
  • Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:59:13 -0800


Toby
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On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Darrell E. Frey wrote:

> In permaculture there is no waste. materials are continuosly
> recycled in ecosystems.

Right on, Darrell. The idea of taking complex industrial or biological
materials possessing high levels of organization and low levels of entropy,
and blasting all that rich organization directly into CO2 and energy--with a
massive increase in entropy and huge loss in organization--seems a profoundly
"wasteful" thing to do. Intelligent life (all the life on the planet) has
learned to put many, many cycles of yield into the extraction of order and
energy from the materials so painstakingly built up to high order by
biological processes. We must start doing this with technological nutrients,
too. The analogy would be: a channeled stream rushing straight down a
hillside to the bottom, versus a series of ponds, each providing water and
energy for many different processes along the way. Burning technological
nutrients is crazy. It's literally burning the house to keep warm. By keeping
the ban, we'll have to figure out wiser things to do with resources than burn
them.

> Ideally energy systems are based on reducing
> the need, then solar, wind, hydro then non fossil fuels such as
> biomass. As Mr McDonough suggests, there should be two material
> streams, organic materials and technological materials, and the two
> should be cycled seperately
>
> Darrell E. Frey
> Three Sisters Farm
> defrey@bioshelter.com
> www.bioshelter.com
>
> Author; Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm. New Society
> Publishing, 2011
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:39:44 -0500, Lois Grossman <lgrossm2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Massachusetts is considering lifting a 20-year moratorium on building new
>> incinerators for the state. MassPIRG is gathering signatures to oppose
>> lifting the ban. To me the concept of waste-to-energy is entirely in the
>> permaculture mindset, but not if the outcome produces toxic waste. Is there
>> any "safe" incineration technology?
>>
>> Your individual and collective thoughts on this point would be very
>> welcome, along with permission to forward the information to appropriate
>> individuals involved.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Lois Grossman
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