MORE WASTE MANAGEMENT=MORE ENERGY

The subject of politics reminds NewEnergyNews of this story:

Waste Management taps clean power from garbage; FujiFilm to power manufacturing complex with landfill methane
Timothy Gardner, June 27, 2007 (Reuters)

WHO
Waste Management Inc., Paul Pabor, VP, renewable energy;
Also: Fujifilm

WHAT
- Waste Management is streamlining plans to develop methane gas from landfill waste, a conveniently-located, non-intermittent renewable energy.
- Also: Landfill gas will power 40% of the FujiFilm So. Carolina manufacturing complex.
a well contained landfill project (click to enlarge)

WHEN
- Waste Management announcement June 27.
- Waste Management has been utilizing landfill methane for 20 years.
- FujiFilm announcement June 27.

WHERE
- 100 of 281 Waste Management landfills trap and supply methane energy.
- FujiFilm manufacturing complex is in Greenwood, So. Carolina

WHY
- Waste Management is planning to derive 700 megawatts/year (power enough for 700,000 homes) from 60 landfills over 5 years. Additional revenue will come from selling/banking renewable energy credits.
landfill gases form below the mass and are pumped through pipes to an engine powering a generator creating electricity (click to enlarge)

- Nationally, there are 425 such US projects and 560 more that can be developed.
- The channeling of landfill gases is expected to reduce the FujiFilm manufacturing complex greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 10%.
- Most landfills vent methane, a GHG 20 times worse than CO2. It is the single worst human-caused release of GHGs.

QUOTES
Pabor: "Unlike wind power, which doesn't always blow, or solar which doesn't always shine, landfills produce gas constantly…"