Takeaways:
- In Queensland, methane is captured by old landfills, tips and dumps where is it burned onsite or fed into an engine that is used to create dispatchable electricity.
- Future plans include hybrid systems of landfill methane, with internal combustion engine generators, batteries, and solar.
- While it is not the best solution, it is said that burning methane (or combusting) converts it into carbon dioxide which is 28 times less damaging than the methane itself.
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