[BC] empty sites

[Mike McCarthy]

I asked about that.  No, the gas is burned outside.  One would think that 
the methane could be captured and used.  But from what I've heard from 
engineers familiar with this type of installation, they say the gas is VERY 
low quality and barely burns.  Therefore, the BTU output would be very low 
per CF of gas as well as probably contaminated with other gaseous emissions 
from the dump.

My suggestion to them is to use that gas to fire a boiler and sell the heat 
to local people.  It's a virtually unlimited supply of the gas....  But the 
costs to do that far outweight the revenue projection. Plus then there is 
storage issues during the summer. The same applies for  electricity which 
would only net maybe 10-15 KW from this site.

MM

At 09:04 AM 10/21/2005 -0400, Ernie Belanger wrote
>Did you guys capture the  methan gas coming from the old dump to use for 
>heating fuel with a gas fired furnace??
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike McCarthy" <Towers at mre.com>
>>The Milwaukee community TV tower and the older Sinclair TV tower, both 
>>over 1000 ft. are also built on an old dump. The two towers are 300 ft. 
>>from each other and guylines interleave.  >
>
>>At 08:42 AM 10/21/2005 -0400, Ballard F. Fore, Jr. wrote
>>>Speaking of dumping....I have an operating site sitting on an old county
>>>dump.
>
>
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