Angela Zhang
speaker
440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
Angela Zhang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I didn't know the answer to this either.
So I actually went on a trip to the Spokane Waste-to-Energy Facility in Washington State to find out.
I bet.
I met Chris Avert there.
He's a director in the Public Works Division, and he took me on a tour of the facility to see the whole process.
And this building was big, like nine stories tall.
And as you heard, it was also really loud.
Yeah, sounds loud.
Also, he showed me something really cool.
Wait, what?
Like the garbage sent from Antarctica generated by people at, I guess, research stations there?
Who knew, right?
And the other thing, Emily, is there was so much trash constantly getting pushed and piling up against this like 40 foot wall.
How many days of trash do you think that is?
Wow, I mean, it's stacked from floor to ceiling.
Once the trash arrives at the facility, it's fluffed and dried, and then it's put into the boiler to burn.
Okay, how does all this get turned into energy?
Well, the facility runs water in the wall next to the furnace as the trash is burning.
And the water heats up and it becomes steam.
And then the steam is processed through a turbine to make electricity, which I thought was like a pretty cool process.
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