Invention Turns Toxic Waste into Electricity

New technology could clean toxic messes from mines and create electricity at the same time

Contaminated water seeping from coal and metal mines is a serious environmental hazard that endangers the safety of drinking water supplies and the health of plants and animals. This caustic pollution—loaded with metals such as arsenic, lead, copper, iron and cadmium—is currently difficult and costly to treat.
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This could help clean up many of the Superfund sites and mine taling areas which are among the most toxic areas of the planet. If it can be done on a large scale and cheaply it may go a long way

wow, that was interesting....if SOMEONE in government ever gets
serious, this pollution/free energy thing could help the american
situation quite a lot!!

A bit like this: Waste-to-energy Electricity & Fuel