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Science & Technology, Sustainable living, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 8th, 2010,
A sewage works in Oxfordshire, England is providing natural gas from human waste to the power grid. As much as 15% of natural gas in the UK could come from biogas or biomethane by the year 2020, according to the National Grid. Since biomethane is both a renewable power source and a way to use waste, it is seen by many as a win-win innovation in energy solutions. The average person produces the equivalent of 30kg of dried-out sewage sludge a year that could be used for producing gas. In theory that means the UK’s 62.5 million people could generate…
Tags: biogas, biomethane, energy, gas, human, power, renewable, sewage, UK
Health, Sustainable living, Aug 17th, 2010,
We’ve all got to worry about our environment, even refugees. Actually, especially refugees: they often live in squalid conditions with poor sanitation and lack basic resources. Environmental engineers at the University of Weimar in Germany are working on a solution to sewage problems at refugee camps by converting it into something else they need: fuel. No shit? Yes, shit. I’m thinking of using this biogas for cooking purposes. The energy could also be used for other purposes. Lighting is also a huge problem in refugee camps. Providing light at night would improve safety. –Eckhard Kraft, University of Weimar According to…
Tags: biogas, camps, Deutsche Welle, environmental, fuel, methane, refugees, shit
Science & Technology, Sustainable living, May 24th, 2010,
Bruichladdich Distillery, located on the Island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland, has been in operation since 1881. The distillery is an independent and traditional business which has used the same equipment since its inception. Though considered by some to be a ‘green’ industry at heart, whisky making does use plenty of electricity and produces a significant amount of waste. To solve energy and waste disposal problems – for mainly economic rather than environmental reasons – Bruichladdich Distillery has installed a biogas generator that produces methane from ‘pot ale’, a whisky by-product consisting of mostly water. Mark Reynier,…
Tags: biogas, Bruichladdich, distillery, generator, Scotch, waste, whisky
Sustainable living, sustainable living, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 6th, 2010,
In a poor area of Cairo, Egypt, where ‘almost everything’ is reused and recycled, CNN visits one man’s home that is powered by gas from fermented kitchen waste. The biogas unit – which also provides fertilizer – as well as a solar water heating system, were both built by the man himself. He is obviously as skillful as he is dedicated to self-sufficiency. Check out this inspiring report from CNN: CNN Eco Solutions – Making gas from garbage In a related bit of news, here is a CNN Eco Solutions report on a building project in Egypt which constructs efficient,…
Tags: biogas, building, Cairo, CNN, CNN Eco Solutions, Egypt, environmentally friendly
Science & Technology, sustainable living, Dec 1st, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->Biogas now available for British homes: New")
' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2279.jpg' alt='biogas-now-available-for-british-homes-new-green-gas-tariff-turns-food-waste-into-fuel' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> U.K. energy provider Ecotricity is mostly known in Great Britain as a wind power company. But now the self-proclaimed ‘world’s first green electricity company’ is moving into the natural gas market. Biogas or ‘green gas’ is sustainable gas sourced from food waste and sewage, which would otherwise end up in landfills. It can be added to and eventually replace the ‘brown gas’ that is distributed by the U.K.’s National Grid. A story appearing in the Guardian on November 22nd details Ecotricity’s plans and its mission to bring biogas to British consumers. ‘Britain discards about 18 million tonnes of food waste…
Tags: biogas, Ecotricity, food waste, green gas, UK
