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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 15 > Landfill may yield energy

Landfill may yield energy

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
July 15, 2006

Sometime in the future, Knott Landfill's dirty garbage could be the source of green energy.

The power plant may be powered by methane gas, which is created by the decomposing garbage.

The landfill is already generating the flammable gas, operations manager Chad Centola said. In 2001, the....

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