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Is it cost effective to use methane gas from landfills to produce electricity?

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Is it cost effective to use methane gas from landfills to produce electricity?

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Like I mentioned in my "Cow Poop for Energy" post, the capturing and using methane gas to produce electricity is both an economical and environmental way to go. Please read this article about how they’re doing this with a landfill close to me.
http://www.msa2.saccounty.net/wmr2/Page ... Plant.aspx
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Re: Is it cost effective to use methane gas from landfills to produce electricity?

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Here’s a video showing how landfills are being used to produce energy. Note: Check out video for cow poop post and see which one you like like. :?:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lan ... ORM=NVPFVR
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