inceneration If you were to create a dump make a dome over it then harvest the methane from the rotting?
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To a degree, this is technically possible.  The glitch comes from the fact that garbage accumulates faster than it rots.  The net effect is that you cannot produce enough methane fast enough to burn other incoming garbage.  It is possible to expedite the process by building digesters and feed them with a bacteria developed just for this purpose but that is not economically feasible today.  Biodigesters are used in industry for treating water prior to releasing it back to the environment.  There may be other uses which fall within the realm of economic feasibility but what you propose is just not economically feasible on the scale that you would need.  Good thinking, though.  Maybe someday you can come up with an economical answer to the problem.
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divert a huge Ice Comet into the planet?\n\nOr truck a metric butt-ton of hydrogen and oxygen there (frozen of course to bring the most amount in the smallest space) and burn the hydrogen with the oxygen to create seas of nice H20
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First, you wouldn't wanna do that.\nSecond, you wouldn't wanna be around it when it is done.\nAnd third, I think it would gain energy from the surroundings, which would be C4, and evaporate without leaving a residue. So you would be back to square one after a while.
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Landfills will generate natural gas as the result of decomposition of the buried waste. My brother's first job was at a small power plant that burned gas collected from a network of pipes buried over an old landfill.\n\nHowever, there is a theory that much of the worlds natural gas is actually left over from the formation of the Earth and not of biological origin at all. I haven't heard much about that theory lately though, so it may be out of fashion.
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As per the Bhagavatgeetha, any thing taken from the earth should be reincorporated in the earth. Nothing can be created new or destroyed. The energy stored in the body of the dead body will be converted into other type of energy. More scientifically I can say carbon (energy source) in the dead body, will be converted into CO2 while decomposing by the microbes in the soil or air. This CO2 will be utilised by plants for photosynthesis for production for food, which intern used for the next generation of the dead person. Thus energy cen neither be created nor be destroyed. But one form of energy can be transformed into another. People having belief in the reincornation may think that the energy of dead person will be reincorporated into some new born baby. This is some times true. But this will not take immediately. The process of carbon cycle should answer for it. In case of reincornation, the energy transfer is acceptable. But no body knows how the memory (software) in the dead person's body translocates in the new born baby with reincornation. How, how, how? If any body believing reincornation, please answer my question.
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Nope--both methane and the match itself need oxygen to burn.
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No. The sun is to far away.\n\nWould we use gas to get it there? Because if we did we would be adding to our global warming situation while trying to beautify our planet. It would be counterproductive (If not impossible) any way you look at it.
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I guess it is an assumption by you but it can happen.  It would be a better world because it will replace the use of many contaminating fuels and will be of a great economic value.  Also the hole over the pole caused by industrial  emissions and others would have a higher probability of surviving.  Actually such a use is increasing and you can find windmill farms for the production of electricity.  They are contamination free except for an acceptable low noise.  Although great advances are being made on the subject,  more can be done.  I have found a lot of information about this topic in the Internet, as well as for other alternatives like gasohol and bio diesel.  Today  you can get heat from the sun as well as electricity  by using either common panels or vacuum tube collectors.
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u also need to create a biosphere,,self contained sealed enviroment that has oxygen producing plants and also plants for food,and a filtering system for water. and a waste mangement system all self contained. and a communications system back to earth.
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I'm afraid no...  We will not be able to get oil from garbage dumps ever (besides what we leave in there as "garbage"), but as the bio matter degrades and decomposes, the garbage does create methane gas (natural gas like we use to heat homes and run power plants).  Oil actually comes from decayed oceanic plant matter mostly.  It dies, falls down to the bottom of the ocean, and in the right conditions, is preserved.  With time, the right temperatures and pressures, and with a proper reservoir, it becomes free oil.  One thing about garbage dumps though.  As steel, aluminum, and other metals become more scarce, I fully expect us to one day "mine" our garbage for resources we foolishly throw away today.
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their brains will be pickled for eternity if there is a leak.\nNo cryogenics required.
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You could do. It reduces CO2 emissions.\n\nHere's an article that might interest you. It's about the chinese developing a new much-safer and cheaper design of reactor called a pebble-bed reactor.\n\nThat still leaves how to dispose of the waste. Perhaps someone else knows whether there have been any developments in waste disposal recently.
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Soak in the ground.\nEvaporate.
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There are several ways. For example, burning it directly (mass incineration) or heating it withoug air so that it produces burnable gas (gasification) that can be the fuel to a turbine or reciprocating engine. You can also put it into a tank and let bacteria decompose it. This generates again gas that could be burnt.
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If you had some sort of infinite oxygen supply (highly unlikely) and a air tight bunker sort of thing, it could be possible.\n\nThe outside would have to be something very non-absorbant to heat/light, yet still maintains insulation. It would probably be very expensive, and really limit your living conditions. Uncomfortable, boring, etc.\n\nThen there's always the question of food/water.
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Do you mean air and plant production?\n\nthat would be tricky but do think a small base is feasible.
590630
How about a bowl of water beneath it? Is that within the rules? Alternatively one of the other posters is planning to drill a hole through the centre of the planet, you could always use their hole, it wouldn't break then!