Sewers
Do you know of any municipalities that produce electricity from sewer gas?
Massive amounts of electricity can be generated from sewer gas which is a byproduct of sewage treatment. The odd explosion and the dumping gas into the air are all I have ever heard of. Many large intense farm animal operations do this commercially, why don't Cities do this? Is it done in America?
Public Comments
- Small scale projects are common in India, the first link to to a blog detailing them. Japan has used sewage to generate gas for buses. Besançon, France uses biogas for power and heat. A nice summery of the project can be downloaded from the third link. In the US, Akron apparently did it.
- Yes, the sewer under the US senate building has been an excellent source of gas and sewage since the democrats took it over.
- there was a TV item about a place in England that ws going to collect and then ferment its rubbish to produce methane to run a power plant - sometime. I heard that one rubbish dump in my county was producing a lot of methane but nothing was being done about this, and this years ago. Yet simple technical systems are given to some underdeveloped countries to help them make their own methane gas from farm animals, which a monastery in Northern Ireland does, if I remember correctly where it was.
