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A new approach to energy: Using old landfill sites to generate solar power
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/11/18/66016/using-old-landfill-sites-to-generate-solar-power/[font face=Serif][font size=5]A new approach to energy: Using old landfill sites to generate solar power[/font]
David Gorn | November 18, 04:35 PM
[font size=4]Sprinkled throughout Southern California are large pockets of toxic land, vacant 100-plus-acre warts of unusable space — most of it old landfills. Now there’s a movement to rehabilitate those sites by using them for alternative energy projects, transforming huge hills of debris into generators of wind, methane gas and solar energy.[/font]
[font size=3]These efforts help cut greenhouse gas emissions, create jobs, make a little cash for local communities and in some cases help clean up the site itself.
Milliken landfill is one of those sites. Closed since 1999, it rises like a small mountain near Ontario International Airport, with one of the best views in the area.
On the flat stretch of land at the top of the landfill, Mary Esper supervises the installation of a large solar project by the Brea-based PV Navigator. It's expected to start generating electricity by the end of this year.
Two dozen men in hardhats and yellow vests brace themselves as they set up hundreds of metal frames that will hold almost 10,000 solar panels.
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David Gorn | November 18, 04:35 PM
[font size=4]Sprinkled throughout Southern California are large pockets of toxic land, vacant 100-plus-acre warts of unusable space — most of it old landfills. Now there’s a movement to rehabilitate those sites by using them for alternative energy projects, transforming huge hills of debris into generators of wind, methane gas and solar energy.[/font]
[font size=3]These efforts help cut greenhouse gas emissions, create jobs, make a little cash for local communities and in some cases help clean up the site itself.
Milliken landfill is one of those sites. Closed since 1999, it rises like a small mountain near Ontario International Airport, with one of the best views in the area.
On the flat stretch of land at the top of the landfill, Mary Esper supervises the installation of a large solar project by the Brea-based PV Navigator. It's expected to start generating electricity by the end of this year.
Two dozen men in hardhats and yellow vests brace themselves as they set up hundreds of metal frames that will hold almost 10,000 solar panels.
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