Producing energy from landfills

[Old and In the Way]

Interesting article in the Maine Sunday Telegram on a huge landfill in Hamden, known as "Sawyer's Mountain" that is now being developed to use the methane outgassing to power electrical generators.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/business/stories/070429landfill.html

"On May 14, the landfill's owners will break ground for Maine's first power plant that converts landfill gas into electricity. When it's operating later this year, the $6 million project will generate enough energy to light roughly 3,000 homes for the next 15 years. It also has the potential, perhaps, to dry lumber or grow vegetables with waste heat from the turbines.

While the 3-megawatt power plant is noteworthy by itself, its larger significance is tied to a second project up the interstate at the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. Still in the planning stages, a power project there could light more than 15,000 homes for up to 60 years. It would use engines retired from the Pine Tree Landfill."

[jpak]

1. I wuz just about to post this...

:hi:

[Old and In the Way]

5. I figured as much...I looked to see if you had before I posted.

I was surprised that you hadn't... :hi: backatcha...

[MADem]

2. Wow, one man's trash IS another man's treasure!!! NT

[OlderButWiser]

3. Someday...

Someday landfills will become valuable as a source of inexpensive raw material.

[IDemo]

4. similar project in Boise

supplying energy to ~24,000 homes -> http://www.mcelroy.com/fusion/media/articles/boise.htm

[Autumn Colors]

6. Shouldn't be too long before reality imitates art....

:P