Startup Targets Small Landfill Gas to Ease EV Power Grid Strain
A few years ago, Adam Wright was walking through a Berkeley, Calif., park when he encountered a smokestack combusting methane. The flare was the city’s mitigation measure to break down the gas seeping from a landfill that had closed decades earlier and been converted into a bayside amenity.
The constant supply of gas sparked an idea: What if he could generate electricity with it? Tying together individual small landfills across the country could power things like electric vehicle charging, Wright thought.