They are not vigilantes

Don’t try to play that card in the Ventana Ranch incident. That round peg won’t fit in this square hole.

FRED L. WHITE

Corrales

Here’s how to cut waste to landfill

I HAVE AN idea for a viable way to a)reduce or eliminate our landfill; b) develop a better, 21st century mass-transit system; and c) improve our air quality all while creating many hundreds of new jobs and potentially placing Albuquerque as a significant cutting-edge community. Does this sound interesting?

In one way this may seem complex, but these are real issues that need to be addressed so it behooves our society to open a rational discussion about them.

If we built a plasma gassification complex to process all of our landfill it would pay for itself in less than a decade and then provide abundant free electricity. The plasma gassification process is already at industrial capability and can be easily researched and utilized.

While this process is evolving, if we engineered and built a mass-transit system, either above ground or subway level, when the system was ready the plasma gassification system could power it and the riders could transit for free. The number of cars we could reduce from our highways would ease congestion and improve air quality.

I know this sounds too simple on one level and too complex at the same time, but we have to evolve and this is a significant commitment that would have significant payoff in the future.

The future is going to come, will we be ready for it?

MICHAEL CLIFFORD

Rio Rancho
— This article appeared on page 06 of the Albuquerque Journal