[WallShadow]

Biomass, Municipal Solid Waste, or Trash, it all burns; many towns and cities have power-generating plants dedicated to consuming solid waste. One website dedicated to Biomass fuel technologies shows four, count 'em, _four_ Biomass burning power plants within a few miles of each other in central Long Island! Now, that would make a heck of a power base (pun not intended) for the US Gov't to try to influence back into the national fold. Considering how slowly paper and other "brown" carbon wastes decompose in dark, anaerobic, low-moisture conditions like landfills, it would behoove the neighbors of these landfills to start mining the erstwhile trash back into the energy cycle.