There is a short half life to the methane produced; meaning that within a few years unless this is a landfill that is replenished with organics; the gas produced will be depleted, rendering the infrastructur useless. In other words, this is not a renewable!

Gas cleaning is somewhat expensive and Maine's Cassella gas project in Hampden has patented a cleaning process they are now marketing.

If you are in an area with a thriving bio-mass, you should consider the pioneering work in installing a gassifier that uses 'green' and other organic waste for a CHP. Web site below is well documented.

Contact is:

Rob Rizzo
Director of Facilities Administration
Mount Wachusett Community College
978-630-9137 (voice)
978-630-9559 (fax)
RRizzo@mwcc.mass.edu
http://www.mwcc.mass.edu/renewable

The project as described is a LOW tech project characterized by lots of engineering, lots of Iron, lots of big machinery and worst of all lots of high cost maintenance that gets more expensive with time.

To make matters worse, CH4 (methane) + 2xO2------->CO2 + 2xH2O. What do you do with this Carbon diOxide?

Stephen Hamilton
CEO, Solar Power Assets, LLC
ceo@solarpowerassets.com

Better Iron, than the hazardous materials-CADMIUM; and greenhouse gas producing production of solar panels:

" First, raw materials have to be mined: quartz sand for silicon cells, metal ore for thin film cells. Next, these materials have to be treated, following different steps (in the case of silicon cells these are purification, crystallization and wafering). Finally, these upgraded materials have to be manufactured into solar cells, and assembled into modules. All these processes produce air pollution and heavy metal emissions, and they consume energy - which brings about more air pollution, heavy metal emissions and also greenhouse gases."

Methane is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and you're complaining about that?