How does waste plants turn garbage into usable energy?

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What happens to the toxic byproduct from burning the waste?

How is the energy harnessed, stored and ultimately used?

Why aren’t more countries doing this? Limitations?

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Think about the steam engines on a train. You dump coal into the furnace and it fuels the engine using heat energy.

Same thing, but much bigger.

In fact, nuclear works the same way too, using heat to essentially run a steam engine. It’s not quite that simple, but it’ll give you a fair idea.

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