First in nation: UNH embraces landfill gas
The University of New Hampshire completed a project that uses local landfill gas to power and heat its campus.
Mon, Jun 01 2009 at 8:28 PM EST
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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Max
Today 11:47 AM
Garbage isn’t all that sexy and most of us want to avoid it at all costs. That’s probably why our “Dry Tomb” landfills flourish. They hide garbage from our view and they hide the odor (for most of us) from our noses...out of site...out of mind.
We need to rethink how we dispose of our trash; the key words are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. But once things make it into our landfill we need to be smart about how we handle the trash. Our company supports the development of bioreactor.... More
