Sunny Monday morning greetings!
On my shoot down in South Carolina two weeks ago, one of the locations that we shot at was a landfill (yes, I do get around)! One of the very cool things about doing this shoot is seeing how smart people are taking advantage of a free energy source that most of us would never dream of. In the case of this landfill, as the garbage decomposes, methane gas is created and in the past, the landfill would simply burn off the methane to reduce the explosion hazard for the trapped gas inside the landfill. Now, landfills are piping that methane gas to small set-ups like the one that I shot in this photo. As you look at the photo, the methane gas comes into the hut on the right, excess methane is burned off and the rest is piped into the two large brown enclosures that you see on the left. Inside these enclosues are two very large engines that are being powered by the methane gas. The engines produce electricty and that energy is fed into the electrical grid that we all use. The landfill produces methane for 30 to 40 years depending on the size of the landfill, so it’s a win /win for everyone involved!!!!! This technolgoy is very “green” and methane is an incredibly clean fuel source!
Thanks for checking this out as always and I hope that you have a great week to come!!!!
Kev
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