Archive for June 6th, 2007

Powering cities on landfill waste | CNET News.com


Powering cities on landfill waste | CNET News.com

I’ve gone from living in NJ, a densely populated U.S. state, to Tokyo, the most densely populated city in the world. Am I a masochist? I think it’s a lower resource dependant living. I found an idea that both NJ and Tokyo could take advantage of:

To summarize

The process Ze-gen is testing is cleaner than incinerating trash and avoids the production of methane–a potent greenhouse gas–from landfills, said Jim Matheson, a general partner at Flagship Ventures.

“In all the hubbub about energy, clean tech and sustainability more broadly, we think waste has been overlooked both from the dimension of the energy value of the waste and the environmental impact,” Matheson said.