First in nation: UNH embraces landfill gas
Mon, Jun 01 2009 at 8:28 PM EST
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Photo credit: UNH The University of New Hampshire, the school I attended when I was but a wee freshman back in the '90's, is the first university in the nation to be primarily powered by landfill gas. 85 percent of the school's heating and electricity will be generated using purified methane gas from a nearby landfill.
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