Atlanta's Live Oak Landfill to Become Source of Renewable Energy

[jpak]

http://www.renewableaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50025

Jacoby Energy Development, Inc., announced this week that it has executed a milestone contract to turn Live Oak Landfill, one of metro Atlanta's largest landfills, into a source for renewable energy.

A public-private partnership of Jacoby Energy, Waste Management, DeKalb County and Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) will recover and clean methane gas to serve local energy needs in a way that has never been done in Georgia until now. This endeavour will be the first methane recovery to natural gas project in the state.

In this partnership, Jacoby Energy will recover the methane from Live Oak Landfill, process it by removing contaminants through a cleaning process, and pump it into AGL's pipeline network, providing a renewable methane gas to AGL customers. While other processes are used to burn methane recovered from landfills to generate energy, this is only the ninth facility in the country and the second in the Southeast to pump methane through a commercial pipeline—a more environmentally friendly alternative.

"Renewable energy production is among the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century," notes Jim Jacoby, CEO of The Jacoby Group. "Our focus on sustainable development led us to ponder what more we could do to expand our sustainability-focused business."

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[Vilis Veritas]

1. See! Trash is GOOD.

Make more trash!

I see a business opportunity here.

Portable Methane Collectors for you bathroom. PMC's...hmmm maybe that is a bad acronym for something attached to your ass...unless of course, you are Moran in Chief...

No Fear.

[Donnachaidh]

2. I'd like 2 of those ass-collectors please

For two very *potent* members of my family. :evilgrin:

[Vilis Veritas]

4. ...

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

3. All these landfills should be tapped for the gas

You drive across the country and see places where they are just burning the gas off through a lone pipe networked through the landfill.