From WSJopinion: In a lesson about how the energy transition is likely to play out, landfill operators’ ability to make use of excess gas has exploded in recent years, write Nick Stork and jmalchow
, a company that designs, builds and operates RNG plants in the U.S. to convert waste emissions. Archaea produces 6,000 oil-equivalent barrels a day through 13 RNG facilities with plans to construct 88 more to serve rising demand. Our only input is trash.
Historically, energy investment has been about more deal making. But the technologies that will provide the next leap in energy abundance—solar, batteries and even electrolysis of water into hydrogen—call for something new: high-precision, iterative engineering. Small-scale breakthroughs in gas processing enabled us to improve the portion of usable natural gas recovered from landfills to 95%, up from an industry standard of 75%.
Some of the predictions in “Back to the Future” proved too far-fetched. Flying cars seem as distant today as they were in the 1980s. But power from trash? Today trash represents a permanent carbon-negative source of natural gas. Voluntary transactions in RNG, and the micro-scale process improvements that have boosted this market, suggest a far more circular economy on the horizon.
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