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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it? I thought they were burning landfill or swamp gas.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil 0 points 2 months ago

You can get it there, too, but when it's already mixed with air you're forced to do the math of how much energy is in the methane versus how much it costs to distill out of the nitrogen and oxygen.