Eli5, Why do landfills merely burn off ex bytra gas into flames, why can’t they generate electricity or something with that gas?
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Basically what a lot of the answers here are already saying, there are some that do. The reason you wouldn’t is often a question of economics – the quantity of gas is either not sufficient to be useful for anything, or the cost to capture is higher than the payout on capturing it.
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