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The company in Germany that is buying the first run of panels for their megawatt solar power station gets my kudos for using their landfill for a good purpose a
by kingnothing 19y ago
The company in Germany that is buying the first run of panels for their megawatt solar power station gets my kudos for using their landfill for a good purpose after it's full. I'd like to see more companies use innovative thinking like that to find a use for otherwise worthless land.
- eru 19y agoIt's not so unusually to re-use full land fills here in Germany.
- kingnothing 19y agoWhat else are they used for?
- eru 19y agoHere in Magdeburg one land fill was made part of a park for the federal garden exhibition (Bundesgartenschau) in '99. They covered it of course.
- eru 19y agohttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=magdeburg+buga&ie=UTF8&ll=52.136952,11.676085&spn=0.009259,0.020084&t=h&z=16&om=1 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&t... The strang 'snake' on the west flank is a shute that you can use with skids.
- paul 19y agoThe shoreline area of Mountain View (where Google is located) is largely old landfill. There are still some flaming methane vents around (or there were a few years ago).