My Colloquium Experience

We have now taken a trip to the Lee County Waste to Energy Facility, and while there we were given a presentation and a tour of the facility. Throughout the world we have overpopulation, and this comes with the production of a large amount of waste. In the past this waste would be thrown into a dump and then this would eventually be burned but with little concern for the environment. We still had to get rid of the waste but a way to dispose of it while also considering the environment and the people around had to be developed. One such way is through the use of a waste to energy facility much like the one we visited in Lee County.  Ex. 1 Here waste is still burned but a lot is put into preventing a lot of carbon from entering the environment, and the burning of this trash in itself is used to produce energy. This is done by the burning trash heating up liquid producing steam and thus pressure in a system that turns turbines. This water is condensed and used again, but the electricity i