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Here in Australia many landfill sites have been capped and their gas captured (unless it leaks i.e. Cranbourne) . One site in Mill Park, Victoria pipes the gas to a nearby YMCA where it is used to heat the indoor pool. Scituate is a small seacoast community near Boston in the US they now plan to use the 15 acres of capped landfill to install a solar array. This town seems to have many energy projects on the go including wind. But will it offer the return on the investment? Current wind projects will only save the town US$150-$250k (big gap there) over the next 20 years. Solar panel installations are much less controversial than wind turbines and they don’t make the noise. They can be worse for return your investment if you get it wrong.
How about trees? Habit for wildlife?
