How to get into the market?
- This article[1] mentions the need for software to simulate what a landfill may contain.
- Build that software
- How to measure/estimate the potential profitability of a landfill:
- Triangulation?
- Drill 3 deep holes around the perimeter of the landfill
- Install sensors to detect specific materials
- Triangulate the position of certain materials/objects
- Ground Penetrating Radar[2] (GPRS)
- City’s/Landfill’s historical records
- Triangulation?
- How to measure/estimate the potential profitability of a landfill:
Potential opportunities:
- A town called Emelle[3] , in Sumter County, AL has the largest toxic waste dump in the nation[4] .
- Moldova has one of the worst waste problems in the world.
- Tuscaloosa Landfills[5]
Update 10/23/21
It’s really cool to see companies like Stronghold Digital Mining[6] that are now building solutions to related land remediation problems.
Footnotes
- http://www.fastcompany.com/57123/theres-gold-them-thar-smelly-hills Back to reference 1
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-penetrating_radar Back to reference 2
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emelle,_Alabama Back to reference 3
- http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/Jones/emelle.htm Back to reference 4
- http://www.tuscaloosa.com/Government/Departments/Environmental-services/Tier-IV/local-landfill-information Back to reference 5
- https://strongholddigitalmining.com/ Back to reference 6
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