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Article: Efficiently heating a Missouri high school, landfill gas comes out smelling like a rose. (Pattonville High School, Maryland Heights, Missouri)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
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- May 5, 1997
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Replace natural gas with landfill gas in your boiler and what do you get? A boiler room that smells like, well, the city dump? Or comfortable heating topped off with significantly lower energy bills?
At Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Mo., the conversion to landfill gas doesn't stink; it saves.
Pattonville is believed to be the first public high school in the U.S. to use landfill gas for heating. A pipeline from the Fred Weber Inc. landfill next door supplies the gas. Since January 6, the school's converted boilers have kept the facility warm.
According to Ed Coe, state ally manager of the Methane Landfill Outreach Program of ...