Reply #4: It May Not Be Efficient, BUT

[Vogon_Glory]

The plant may not be all that efficient, but it does do something useful with those tons of turkey litter that were piling up. Unless someone has a brighter idea as to what to do with the turkey waste, burning the stuff to generate electricity is as good a way as any to see to it that the waste doesn't get into the water supply.

Of course, burning coal also means strip mining the coal out of the western prairies, transporting it long distance on long, ground-shaking unit coal trains, then burning it in conventional, polluting, coal-fired power plants.