Thread by @DSBatten

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Incredibly, in 2032 Landfills are projected to become the biggest source of our strongest lever to reduce climate change

Here's why that's true, and more importantly how we can pull that lever

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Until 2022, we thought our methane emission sources looked like this

source: worldbank.org/en/news/factsh…

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But then NASA revealed the results of 6 years satellite monitoring of landfills

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Our methane emissions actually look like this

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However, landfills emissions are growing at 1.4% p.a.

This is double the compound annual growth of agriculture at 0.7%

Based on this, landfills will become our major source of our strongest lever to reduce climate change (methane) by mid-2032

That's just 9 years away

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The best way to reduce that methane is to turn it into electricity. Here's a landfill I visited earlier this week that's been doing this for 20 years.

This is their carpark. You can plug in your eV to recharge off electricity produced by landfill gas !

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They create that electricity by purifying the landfill gas then piping into these things: generators.

This is generator 13 and 14. Yes they have 14

They generate 14 MW of electricity, which not only slashes carbon emissions, it earns the landfill ~USD6Million per yr.

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So if its so good for the environment and lucrative, why isn't every landfill doing it?

Simple: only 30% of landfills can sell power back to the grid

For the other 70%, the grid is not equipped to take extra power without major upgrade

source: EPA/Vespene

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So sadly, these 70% of landfills continue to emit huge volumes of methane

If only there were a user of that power that could locate at the landfill, without even needing the grid

Then we'd have a solution for our soon-to-be #1 source of methane worldwide

If only🤔