Hawaii's electricity is produced from diesel. Well, about 92% is. Some liberals want to go to vegetable oil but we know a good thing when we pay for it. Thank Gosh we decided not to burn our garbage to generate electricity. Those states down wind of us are greatful too.
LG
There are couple of new technologies on tyhe horizon that sue fluid bed and gasification technology to burn waste.
The trouble is WE need to learn not to buy disposable toxic things and we need to learn to seperate our waste streams better.
Coal is a dirty word but mix coal with clena biomass and you can reduce polution while burning a low grade fuel that would othersie not be cost effective.
in Canada we have a lot of peat but burning peat doesn't make money. mix Peat and thermal coal and you can reduce polution without significantly altering the basic coal fired plant.
There are solutions we just need the will to stop doing everything on the cheap