Garbage to Energy: A Not So Modest Proposal

As this article in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows, one corporation in the area has put forth a wonderful proposal on how to compete vs. Laclede Gas in Maryland Heights.

Link: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/EEECD8F117BB34C5862572730010DC4F?OpenDocument

This is a good example of businesses (Weber is one of 423 projects across the nation) taking advantage of natural processes for profit: taking something that we produce a lot of (garbage) and turning it into something we use a lot of (energy).

Huzzah.