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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 24 > Pilot project to turn fumes into energy

Pilot project to turn fumes into energy

By Hillary Borrud / The Bulletin
June 24, 2009

For years, Timm Schimke thought about how gas wafting up from decomposing material at Knott Landfill could fuel a power plant.

“It’s probably been on my radar for eight years, maybe longer,” said Schimke, director of Deschutes County’s Department of Solid....

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