• Skip to main content

The JackB

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx

  • About Jack
    • Other Places You Can Find Me
  • Contact Me
    • Disclosure

Untapped Sources of Energy

May 23, 2009 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share
0 Shares

You might think that this story is full of crap, but I think that it has some merit.

More than half of the 15 trillion gallons of sewage Americans flush annually is processed into sludge that gets spread on farmland, lawns, and home vegetable gardens. In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization. But sludge-based as fertilizer can contain anything that goes down the drain—from Prozac flushed down toilets to motor oil hosed from factory floors. That’s why an increasing number of cities have begun to explore an alternative way to dispose of sludge: advanced poop-to-power plants.

By one estimate, a single American’s daily sludge output can generate enough electricity to light a 60-watt bulb for more than nine hours. Here are the six most innovative ways that human waste is being converted to watts:

Read the whole story and learn about:

Poop-Eating Bacteria
Turd Cell Smashers
Geological Toilets
Feces Ponds
Gassifiers
Poop Pyrotechnics

Who knows, maybe one day you’ll fill up your car at the outhouse. 😉

(Visited 58 times, 1 visits today)

Share this:

  • Share
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Related

Filed Under: Science

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Copyright © 2022 · Author Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in