The University of New Hampshire (UNH) has chanced upon a novel method to utilize campus trash. While initiating the $49 million project dubbed as ECOline, the energy team aims at meeting 85% of its heat and electricity needs from landfill gas. UNH and SCS Energy, the contractor, have laid a 12-mile pipeline from a gas-processing facility at the Turnkey Landfill to the school’s new co-generation plant.
Video after the jump demonstrates how the technology works:
Relying on the initial stats, the university is hopeful of generating capacity of 700 megawatts by 2013 once they are done with their proposal to establish 60 similar plants.