Actually, to some extent they are engaging in the general principle you are mentioning. I did not realize this, but I was recently speaking with a company that does a lot of work with gas compressors. One of their main clients is landfills. Rather than just burning off and wasting the methane produced as a byproduct of decomposition, they are cover the landfills to trap the gas and then remove it for energy.
I see a lot of discussion about storage issues with wind and solar. We see new technologies that can turn municipal waste into fuel. We don't have enough waste to solve all our needs but if we can use 20-30% of it to reduce oil imports and green house gases we gain a two fer.
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