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Shipping by rail and sea is incredibly efficient. Some googling tells me rail is 471 ton-miles per gallon. The average American produces 1600 lbs of trash per year, so you can ship one person's trash for a year almost 600 miles with one gallon of fuel. Even long-distance trash transportation is a negligible contributor to someone's oil use.


Could you not extract the methane, and run the train on it, and transport it for free?

Poopetual motion? (sorry for the shit jokes)


Sure, if you can invent a methane extraction process that needs no expensive equipment, has no maintenance, and is safe, then it would be "free".




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