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True, but some landfills capture that methane and pump it back into the natural gas grid. I don't know the details of how efficient or widespread this type of capturing scheme is, but it seems to me like this is probably actually more sustainable than using natural gas from drilling and fracking.

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Usually they just burn it on-site through generators in containers.

It’s too dirty to put in the natural gas grid.

Ah, thanks for the correction, I didn't realize that. Still seems like it's not a bad way to generate electricity though.

You weren’t totally wrong, just not the most correct :)

I looked up the numbers, in the US, it’s something like 70% burn on-site for electricity, 20% burn in some nearby use (e.g. process steam or greenhouse warming) and 10% was cleaned up enough to pipe into the natural gas grid.

That’s by facility count, not BTUs.

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