Chevy Helps Virginia Landfill Heat Hospital with Methane Gas
Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Va. is heating part of its facility with methane gas pumped in from a county landfill, effectively reducing carbon-based greenhouse gas emissions along the way. Chevrolet is supporting the project by buying a portion of those emission reductions.
This initiative takes methane gas usually released into the atmosphere during trash decomposition and turns it into energy for the hospital. Chevrolet has embraced this project as part of its carbon-reduction commitment.
Since methane’s greenhouse gas impact on the atmosphere is 21 times worse than that of the same amount of carbon dioxide, Rockingham County Landfill has turned this waste gas into a beneficial energy resource. See how it’s done by watching the video above.
The hospital burns the landfill gas in its boilers as a substitute for natural gas, generating steam to heat the facility’s hot water, sterilize surg
