concrete animal | 12-06-2007 | comment profile send pm notify |
job tomarrow at local land-fill. there putting generators in to provide power they will run off the gas produced by the buried garbage. how much power will be provided to whom, I don't know |
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eugene | 12-06-2007 | reply profile send pm notify |
a local dump has replaced its motors with two cat G3520 they are twenty cyclinder units and will power 4000 homes. the gas gets cleaned through a scrubber, methane is 97% productive compared to wind that is 35-40% |
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concrete animal | 12-08-2007 | reply profile send pm notify |
Didn't get much info while there. there setting up to power 6 moters with methane. supposably.. landfill produces enough gas to power 5 currently full time and gas producion continues to increase. |