I thought I would have nothing to blog about until the news stopped showing Britney’s coochie then I read about this delightful piece on AP..

South Korea builds world’s largest garbage-fuelled power plant

South Korea has opened the world’s largest garbage-fuelled power plant and expects to reduce its imports of heavy oil by 500,000 barrels a year as a result.

The 50-megawatt plant, designed to provide power to more than 180,000 households, began operating on Tuesday. It sits on a mammoth garbage dump in the city of Incheon west of Seoul, the ministry said in a statement.

For fuel, it uses only the methane gas naturally generated from the decomposing garbage on the site.

“It reduces greenhouse gas emissions by burning away methane and avoids buring more fossil fuel for electricity,” Park Han-Eop, an official of the ministry’s waste treatment division, told AFP.

The plant will save the country the import of 500,000 barrels of heavy oil and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.37 million tonnes per year, he said.

A private firm, Eco Energy, invested 77 billion won (83 million dollars) in building the power plant in return for operating it for 11 years before handing the commercial rights over to the government, he said.

South Korea has 12 other landfill gas power plants either being built or operating across the country. They are mostly small-sized plants producing one to six megawatts.

South Korea currently relies heavily on nuclear power plants which supply 40 percent of demand. It imports all its oil needs.

Leave it to the Koreans to do something good for this world..makes me feel all warm and happy inside…

Oh wait it doesn’t because it’s so cold here!!!! Where’s the goddamn snow? Damn Montreal, let me down again…..grrr