As they dug through the waste of ages past...

Here's one of those sci-fi related plotlines that I've been tossing around for some time. You watched Wall-E right? You know how they had those city high piles of waste and they couldn't clean it fast enough? Well that wouldn't happen. Why? Because, at some point the scale tips and the waste becomes a resource.

Kinda like here in Sweden. A town of 80,000 powers itself completely on the waste it makes. Biogas is cool that way. It's all going to decompose anyway, so why not make fuel of it?

I have visions of the people of the next 100 yrs actually working in reverse and slowly eating up those massive landfills to fuel their power plants. Sure, it's nothing compared to the power of the Sun but like I said, at some point the scale tips. People will be digging down to the bottom of the 1960s and 70s... pulling up plastic for oil, metal for minerals... So much easier than digging down deep in the earth for it or going to the asteroids.

You know why they don't start with that stuff here? Capitalism. Nobody wants to be the first person to lose money on it. The 2nd and 3rd person might break even. Then finally someone gets the costs down to where the choosy American bites. Sadly, then we employ the Chinese to build all the parts.... sigh.