Grinding Out Power

Keloland Television
By Ben Dunsmoor
Published: September 4, 2011, 9:40 PM

SIOUX FALLS, SD - The landfill may be a place to take trash, but the Sioux Falls landfill is slowly becoming a place that is pumping out power.

For the past two years the landfill has sent gas from decomposing trash to power the POET ethanol plant in Chancellor. And, now a large grinder at the Sioux Falls landfill is also grinding out power.

"This is just another one of those alternative energy sources, alternative funding sources, that we're able to use at the landfill," Sioux Falls Landfill Superintendent Dave McElroy said.

The massive grinder is being used nearly every day to grind up bales of corn stover, which is the name for the corn cobs, leaves and everything else that's leftover after the harvest.

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