Waste to Energy
Waste to Energy
is the process of generating
energy in the form of
electricity and/or
heat
from the primary treatment of waste or garbage, or from a
renewable source
like
algae.
Bio-Gas Plant
Biogas refers to a mixture of different gases produced by
the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be
produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste,
manure, municipal
waste, plant material,
sewage, green waste or
food waste. Biogas is a
renewable energy source and in many cases exerts a very small carbon
footprint.
Composting -
Biochar (biomass)
Enzyme Substrate is typically the chemical species being
observed in a
chemical
reaction, which is organic in nature and reacts with a reagent to
generate a product. In synthetic and organic chemistry, the substrate is
the chemical of interest that is being modified. In biochemistry, an
enzyme substrate is the material upon which an enzyme acts. When referring
to
Le Chatelier's principle, the substrate is the reagent whose
concentration is changed.
Anaerobic Digestion is widely used as a source of renewable
energy. The process produces a biogas, consisting of methane, carbon
dioxide and traces of other ‘contaminant’ gases. This biogas can be used
directly as fuel, in combined heat and power gas engines or upgraded to
natural gas-quality biomethane. The nutrient-rich digestate also produced
can be used as
fertilizer. Anaerobic Digestion is a collection of
processes by which
microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the
absence of
oxygen. The process is
used for industrial or domestic purposes to manage waste or to produce
fuels. Much of the
fermentation used industrially to produce food and
drink products, as well as home fermentation, uses
anaerobic digestion.
Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food.
Fine-tune our system so that you could get 85 percent of the carbon and
nitrogen back from waste into protein without having to use hydroponics or
artificial light. Anaerobic digestion of human waste and could be used to
grow a different microbe, Methylococcus capsulatus, which is used as
animal feed today.
Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant
Pyrolysis is a thermochemical decomposition of organic
material at elevated temperatures in the absence of
oxygen (or any halogen). It
involves the simultaneous change of chemical composition and physical
phase, and is irreversible. The word is coined from the Greek-derived
elements pyro "fire" and lysis "separating".
Biomass Gasifier
Generators (all power labs)
Converting Biomass by applying Mechanical Force. Nanoscientists
discover new mechanism to cleave cellulose effectively and in an
efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective process for the
conversion of biomass.
Composting -
Biochar (biomass)
Roger Ruan
How does a
Biogas Plant Work? (youtube)
Biodigesters
Liquefied biogas
Bio Gas
Technology
American Biogas Council
Swedish Biogas International
Bio-Construct
Turning Organic Wastes into Biogas for Cooking in Cameroon
3 million Biogas Plants in India
and 35 million in China.
Household Biogas System (image) -
Photo
Home Biogas
(biogas plants)
Home Biogas - Turn Waste into Energy
Fukuoka City Central Water Processing Plant, sewage is separated into
liquid and solid waste. The solid waste, called sewage sludge, is exactly
what it sounds like: a foul-smelling, brown lump. Most sewage sludge is
thrown in landfills microorganisms are added to the mix. These
microorganisms break down the solid waste, creating biogas, about 60%
methane and 40% carbon dioxide. Then, workers filter out the CO2 and add
water vapor, which creates hydrogen and more CO2. They extract the CO2
again, and voila: pure hydrogen. The Fukuoka plant produces 300 kilograms
of hydrogen per day, enough to fuel 65 Mirai vehicles, If all the biogas
produced by the plant were converted to hydrogen, that number would jump
to 600 cars per day.
Microbial Fuel Cell
is a bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by using
bacteria and mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature.
Microbial Fuel-cell
Electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric
current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous
chemical reaction.
OstaraFuel Cells
Plantas Autofotosintéticas
Symbiotic
Microbial Fuel Cells (youtube)
Citric Acid Cycle is a series of chemical reactions used by
all aerobic organisms to generate energy through the oxidation of
acetyl-CoA derived from carbohydrates, fats and proteins into carbon
dioxide and chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate. (also
known as the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle or the Krebs cycle).
Electron Transport Chain is a series of compounds that
transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors via redox
(both reduction and oxidation occurring simultaneously) reactions, and
couples this electron transfer with the transfer of protons (H+ ions)
across a membrane.
WSU researchers discover unique microbial photosynthesis a new type of
cooperative photosynthesis that could be used in engineering microbial
communities for waste treatment and bioenergy production.
Sugar Alcohol-Based Energy
Storage Systems abundant waste product of the food industry mixed with carbon nanotubes.
Bio Energy
Biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary
biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather
than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the
formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric
biological matter. Biofuels can be derived directly from plants, or
indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial
wastes.
Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials
derived from biological sources. Biomass is any organic material which has
stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may include
wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugarcane, and many other by products
from a variety of agricultural processes. By 2010, there was 35 GW
(47,000,000 hp) of globally installed bioenergy capacity for electricity
generation, of which 7 GW (9,400,000 hp) was in the United States
Biochar is charcoal used as a
soil amendment. Like most
charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar is under
investigation as an approach to carbon sequestration to produce negative
carbon dioxide emissions. Biochar thus has the potential to help mitigate
climate change via
carbon
sequestration. Independently, biochar can increase soil fertility of
acidic soils (
low pH soils), increase
agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and
soil-borne diseases. Furthermore, biochar reduces pressure on forests.
Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for
thousands of years.
Biomass is organic matter derived from living, or recently
living organisms. Biomass can be used as a source of energy and it most
often refers to plants or plant-based materials which are not used for
food or feed, and are specifically called lignocellulosic biomass. As an
energy source, biomass can either be used directly via combustion to
produce heat, or indirectly after converting it to various forms of
biofuel. Conversion of biomass to biofuel can be achieved by different
methods which are broadly classified into: thermal, chemical, and
biochemical methods.
Grass - Hemp - Bamboo
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Biomass
Bio-Mass Fuel Plant -
Bio Electricity -
Bio-Digesters
Bioneers
Biomimicry
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Biology
Stanford discovery could lead to sustainable source of the fuel additive
ethanol. A recent discovery could lead to a new, more sustainable way
to make ethanol without corn or other crops. This promising technology has
three basic components: water, carbon dioxide and electricity delivered
through a copper catalyst.
Algae - Photosynthetic Organisms
Algae is an informal term for a large, diverse
group of
photosynthetic organisms which are not necessarily closely
related, and is thus polyphyletic. Included organisms range from
unicellular genera, such as Chlorella and the diatoms, to multicellular
forms, such as the giant kelp, a large brown alga which may grow up to 50
m in length. Most are aquatic and autotrophic and lack many of the
distinct cell and tissue types, such as
stomata, xylem, and phloem, which
are found in
land plants. The largest and most complex marine algae are
called seaweeds, while the most complex freshwater forms are the Charophyta, a division of green algae which includes, for example,
Spirogyra and the stoneworts.
Diatom are a major
group of algae, and are among the most common types of
phytoplankton. Diatoms are unicellular, although they can form
colonies in the shape of filaments or ribbons. Phytoplankton are
photosynthesizing microscopic organisms that inhabit the upper sunlit
layer of almost all oceans and bodies of fresh water on Earth.
Chlorophyll is any of several closely related
green pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae
and plants. Chlorophyll is essential in photosynthesis, allowing plants to
absorb energy from light. Chlorophyll absorbs light most strongly in the
blue portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, followed by the red portion.
Conversely, it is a poor absorber of green and near-green portions of the
spectrum, which it reflects, producing the green color of
chlorophyll-containing tissues. Chlorophyll molecules are specifically
arranged in and around photosystems that are embedded in the thylakoid
membranes of chloroplasts. Two types of chlorophyll exist in the
photosystems of green plants: chlorophyll a and b.
Coralline Algae are red algae in the order Corallinales. They are
characterized by a thallus that is hard because of calcareous deposits
contained within the cell walls. The colors of these algae are most
typically pink, or some other shade of red, but other species can be
purple, yellow, blue, white or gray-green. Coralline algae play an
important role in the ecology of coral reefs.
Green
Algae are a large, informal grouping of algae consisting of the
Chlorophyte and Charophyte algae, which are now placed in separate
divisions.
Volvox is
a polyphyletic genus of
chlorophyte green algae in the family Volvocaceae.
It forms spherical colonies of up to 50,000 cells. They live in a variety
of freshwater habitats, and were first reported by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
in 1700. Volvox diverged from unicellular ancestors approximately
200 million years ago.
Phytoplankton
are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community
and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems. Most
phytoplankton are too small to be individually seen with the unaided eye.
However, when present in high enough numbers, some varieties may be
noticeable as colored patches on the water surface due to the presence of
chlorophyll within their cells and accessory
pigments (such as phycobiliproteins or xanthophylls) in some species. Phytoplankton are a
key food item in both aquaculture and mariculture. Both utilize
phytoplankton as food for the animals being farmed. In mariculture, the
phytoplankton is naturally occurring and is introduced into enclosures
with the normal circulation of seawater. In aquaculture, phytoplankton
must be obtained and introduced directly. The plankton can either be
collected from a body of water or cultured, though the former method is
seldom used. The production of phytoplankton under artificial conditions
is itself a form of aquaculture. Phytoplankton is cultured for a variety
of purposes, including foodstock for other aquacultured organisms, a
nutritional supplement for captive invertebrates in aquaria. A 2010 study
published in Nature reported that marine
phytoplankton had declined substantially in the world's oceans over the
past century. Phytoplankton concentrations in surface waters were
estimated to have decreased by about 40% since 1950, at a rate of around
1% per year, possibly in response to
ocean warming.
Zooplankton are
heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton (cf. phytoplankton).
Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh
water.
Symmetry.
World’s First Urban Algae Canopy Produces the Oxygen Equivalent of Four
Hectares of Woodland Every Day.
Autotroph is an
organism that produces complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates,
fats, and proteins) from simple substances present in its surroundings,
generally using energy from light (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical
reactions (chemosynthesis). They are the producers in a food chain, such
as plants on land or algae in water (in contrast to heterotrophs as
consumers of autotrophs). They do not need a living source of energy or
organic carbon. Autotrophs can reduce carbon dioxide to make organic
compounds for biosynthesis and also create a store of chemical energy.
Most autotrophs use water as the reducing agent, but some can use other
hydrogen compounds such as hydrogen sulfide. Some autotrophs, such as
green plants and algae, are phototrophs, meaning that they convert
electromagnetic energy from sunlight into chemical energy in the form of
reduced carbon. Autotrophs can be
photoautotrophs or
chemoautotrophs. Phototrophs use light as an energy
source, while chemotrophs use electron donors as a source of energy,
whether from organic or inorganic sources; however in the case of
autotrophs, these electron donors come from inorganic chemical sources.
Such chemotrophs are lithotrophs. Lithotrophs use inorganic compounds,
such as hydrogen sulfide, elemental sulfur, ammonium and ferrous iron, as
reducing agents for biosynthesis and chemical energy storage.
Photoautotrophs and lithoautotrophs use a portion of the ATP produced
during photosynthesis or the oxidation of inorganic compounds to reduce
NADP+ to NADPH to form organic compounds.
Cyanobacteria is a phylum of
Bacteria that obtain their
energy through
photosynthesis,
and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce
oxygen. The
name "cyanobacteria" comes from the color of the bacteria (Greek: κυανός (kyanós)
= blue). Sometimes, they are called
blue-green algae, and incorrectly so,
because cyanobacteria are prokaryotes and the term "algae" is reserved for
eukaryotes.
Microphyte
are microscopic algae, typically found in
freshwater and marine systems
living in both the water column and sediment. They are unicellular species
which exist individually, or in chains or groups. Depending on the
species, their sizes can range from a few micrometers (µm) to a few
hundred micrometers. Unlike higher plants, microalgae do not have roots,
stems, or leaves. They are specially adapted to an environment dominated
by viscous forces. Microalgae, capable of performing photosynthesis, are
important for life on earth; they produce approximately half of the
atmospheric oxygen and use simultaneously the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide to grow photoautotrophically. Microalgae, together with bacteria,
form the base of the food web and provide energy for all the trophic
levels above them. Microalgae biomass is often measured with chlorophyll a
concentrations and can provide a useful index of potential production. The
standing stock of microphytes is closely related to that of its predators.
Without grazing pressures the standing stock of microphytes dramatically
decreases.
Halophyte is a plant that grows in waters of high salinity,
coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray,
such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and
seashores. An example of a halophyte is the salt marsh grass Spartina
alterniflora (smooth cordgrass). Relatively few plant species are
halophytes—perhaps only 2% of all plant species. The large majority of
plant species are glycophytes, which are not salt-tolerant and are damaged
fairly easily by high salinity.
Salicornia
is a genus of succulent, halophyte (salt tolerant) flowering plants in the
family Amaranthaceae that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among
mangroves. Salicornia species are native to North America, Europe, South
Africa, and South Asia. Common names for the genus include glasswort,
pickleweed, and marsh samphire; these common names are also used for some
species not in Salicornia. The main European species is often eaten,
called marsh samphire in Britain, and the main North American species is
occasionally sold in grocery stores or appears on restaurant menus,
usually as 'sea beans' or samphire greens or sea asparagus.
Bacteria -
Viruses
Algae Bioreactor
or photobioreactor is used for cultivating algae on purpose to
Fix CO2 or
produce biomass.
Algae Bio Fuels Solix
Algal
Bio Refinery
Petro Algae
Vertigro Algae (youtube)
Algae Industry Magazine
Algae cultivation technique could advance biofuels. Researchers have
developed a way to grow algae more efficiently — in days instead of weeks.
Oil from the algae can be used as a petroleum alternative and algae also
can be used as food, feed, fiber, fertilizer, pigments and
pharmaceuticals. Growing and harvesting it in wastewater streams could
also reduce the
environmental footprint of many manufacturing
processes.
Moving
Bed Biofilm Reactor is a type of
wastewater treatment process
system that consists of an aeration tank (similar to a activated
sludge tank) with special plastic carriers that provide a surface where a
biofilm can grow.
Researchers have used a
nanosecond pulsed electric field to extract hydrocarbons from microalgae.
By using the shorter duration pulse, they were able to extract a large
amount of hydrocarbons from the microalgae in a shorter amount of time,
using less energy, and in a more efficient manner than current methods.
Jonathan
Trent: Floating Algae Pods
Nasa Research OMEGA
Live Fuels
NASA Greenlab
Bilal Bomani: GreenLab Research
(video)
Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World. NASA satellite observations to
discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great
Atlantic
Sargassum Belt (GASB).
Originoil Model Algae Appliance
Bacteria Petrol-Like Biofuel
Living Machine
Bio Resource Management
Bio Energy International
Quadrogen
Biofuel matchmaker: Finding the perfect algae for renewable energy
Vanadium Nitrogenase
Wolffia
or duckweed, is the
fastest-growing plant known, but the genetics underlying this strange
little plant's success have long been a mystery to scientists. New
findings about the plant's genome explain how it's able to grow so fast.
The way
plants produce cellulose research identified several
proteins that are essential in the assembly of the protein
machinery that makes cellulose.
Lichen
is a composite organism that arises from
Algae or
cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple
Fungi in a mutualistic
relationship. The combined lichen has properties different from those of
its component organisms. Lichens come in many colors, sizes, and forms.
The properties are sometimes plant-like, but
lichens are not
plants. Lichens may have tiny, leafless branches (fruticose), flat
leaf-like structures (foliose), flakes that lie on the surface like
peeling paint (crustose), a powder-like appearance (leprose), or other
growth forms. A macrolichen is a lichen that is either bush-like or leafy;
all other lichens are termed microlichens. Here, "macro" and "micro" do
not refer to size, but to the growth form. Common names for lichens may
contain the word
Moss
(e.g., "reindeer moss", "Iceland moss"), and lichens may superficially
look like and grow with mosses, but
lichens are
not related to mosses or any plant.
Lichens
do not have roots that absorb water and nutrients as plants do. But
like plants, they produce their own food by
photosynthesis. When they
grow on plants, they do not live as
parasites, but instead use the plants as a substrate. Lichens occur
from sea level to high alpine elevations, in many environmental
conditions, and can grow on almost any surface. Lichens are abundant
growing on bark, leaves, mosses, on other lichens, and hanging from
branches "living on thin air" (epiphytes) in rain forests and in temperate
woodland. They grow on rock, walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil
surfaces, and in the soil as part of a biological
Soil crust. Different kinds of lichens
have adapted to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth:
arctic tundra, hot dry deserts, rocky coasts, and toxic slag heaps. They
can even live inside solid rock, growing between the grains. It is
estimated that 6% of Earth's land surface is covered by lichens. There are
about
20,000 known species of lichens. Some
lichens have lost the ability to reproduce sexually, yet continue to
speciate. Lichens can be seen as being relatively
self-contained
miniature ecosystems, where the fungi, algae, or
cyanobacteria have the potential to engage with other microorganisms
in a functioning system that may evolve as an even more complex composite
organism. Lichens may be long-lived, with some considered to be among the
oldest living things. They are among the first living things to grow on
fresh rock exposed after an event such as a landslide. The long life-span
and slow and regular growth rate of some lichens can be used to date
events (lichenometry).
pH Litmus Test
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Biodiesel Fuels.
Syngas
Wood Gas is a syngas fuel which can be used as a
fuel for furnaces,
stoves and vehicles in place of gasoline, diesel or other fuels. During
the production process biomass or other
carbon-containing materials are
gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to
produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide. These gases can then be burnt as a
fuel within an oxygen rich environment to produce carbon dioxide, water
and heat. In some gasifiers this process is preceded by pyrolysis, where
the biomass or coal is first converted to char, releasing methane and tar
rich in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Syngas is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of
hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some
carbon
dioxide.
Wood
Gas Generator is a gasification unit which converts timber
or charcoal into wood gas, a syngas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen,
carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which -
after cooling and filtering - can then be used to power an internal
combustion engine or for other purposes. Historically wood gas generators
were often mounted on vehicles, but present studies and developments
concentrate mostly on stationary plants.
Gasification is a process that converts organic or fossil
fuel based carbonaceous materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and
carbon dioxide.
My Wood Stove runs
a generator (youtube)
Wood
Power Generators
Wood
Stove runs a Generator (youtube)
SYNPOL - Biopolymers
from Syngas Fermentationan. EU-funded project, has recently developed a
technique that could pave the way for such a revolution. Their new
technique is based upon pyrolysis, which is a process where organic waste
from households and industry is heated until it breaks down and forms
hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, collectively known as
syngas. This process normally requires expensive high temperatures, but
SYNPOL scientists have shown that if they blast the waste with microwaves
at the same time they need less heat. This produces a cheaper syngas that
is also richer in carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and lower in carbon
dioxide, making it even more valuable. These gases are then fed to
genetically engineered bacteria which turn them into the building blocks
of biodegradable plastics. At the end of the supply chain, SYNPOL also
demonstrated that when their
bioplastics finally end up on a compost heap, they will completely
biodegrade into harmless substances. This would allow municipalities to
transform all of their organic waste into syngas, which could then be used
to produce cleaner fuel or bioplastics.
Co-Generation combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a
heat engine or power station to
generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Trigeneration or
combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) refers to the simultaneous
generation of electricity and useful heating and cooling from the
combustion of a fuel or a solar heat collector.
Artificial Leaf successfully produces Clean Gas. artificial leaf is
powered by sunlight, although it still works
efficiently on cloudy and overcast days. And unlike the current industrial
processes for producing syngas, the leaf does not release any additional
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Syngas is currently made from a
mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and is used to produce a range of
commodities, such as fuels, pharmaceuticals, plastics and fertilisers. On
the artificial leaf, two light absorbers, similar to the
molecules in plants that harvest
sunlight, are combined with a catalyst made from the naturally
abundant element cobalt. When the device is immersed in water, one light
absorber uses the catalyst to produce oxygen. The other carries out the
chemical reaction that reduces carbon dioxide and water into carbon
monoxide and hydrogen, forming the syngas mixture. Other 'artificial leaf'
devices have also been developed, but these usually only produce hydrogen.
The Cambridge researchers say the reason they have been able to make
theirs produce syngas sustainably is thanks the combination of materials
and catalysts they used. These include state-of-the-art perovskite light
absorbers, which provide a high photovoltage and electrical current to
power the chemical reaction by which carbon dioxide is reduced to carbon
monoxide, in comparison to light absorbers made from silicon or dye-sensitised
materials. The researchers also used cobalt as their molecular catalyst,
instead of platinum or silver. Cobalt is not only lower-cost, but it is
better at producing carbon monoxide than other catalysts. Syngas is
already used as a building block in the production of liquid fuels.
Urine - Pee Power - Poop as Fuel
2.8 Billion Gallons of Human Urine is
produced and wasted each day.
Urine consists of approximately 98% water, and 2% urea, which is
made up
of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen atoms.
Thermoelectric.
Pee Powered House -
Pee Powered Cellphone -
Pee Powered Energy Generator
The taboo secret to healthier plants and people: Molly Winter
(video and Text)
Urea is the main nitrogen-containing substance in
the
urine of mammals. An organic compound with the chemical formula CO(NH2)2.
The molecule has two —NH2 groups joined by a carbonyl (C=O) functional
group.
Sustainable recovery of nutrients from Urine. Most ammonia capture is
done through the Haber-Bosch (HB) process, an energy-intensive technique
used to produce fertilizer that accounts for 1-2% of the world's annual
energy consumption. Engineers report they have recovered ammonia through a
new method with a very low level of energy, approx 1/5 of the energy used
by HB. And because the technique recycles ammonia in a closed loop, the
ammonia can be recaptured for reuse in fertilizer, household cleaners,
etc.
Technology which makes Electricity from Urine also kills Pathogens.
Microbial
Fuel Cell
installed in homes to treat waste, generate electricity and stop harmful
organisms making it through to the municipal sewerage network, reducing
the burden on water companies to treat effluent.
Urine
Power (youtube)
Biggest Pee Power urinal to date located near Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
J.
Craig Venter Institute -
Living Machines -
Toilets
Waste = Food
(video)
Fuel from Sewage -
Americans generate
34 billion gallons of sewage
each day.
Hydrothermal Liquefaction is a thermal depolymerization process used
to convert wet
biomass into crude-like oil -sometimes referred to as bio-oil or
biocrude- under moderate temperature and high pressure.
Manure for Fuel:
Manure Manager -
Manure for Fuel
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Composting
Hogs Manure flows into a big pond, called a lagoon. This is the
standard form of
treatment for hog waste in this part of the country. In the lagoon,
bacteria go to work on the manure, breaking it down. The bacterial action
releases a biogas that's 60% to 65% methane. On most farms, that gas just
goes floating off into the air — and contributes to the overheating of the
planet.
Methane
is a greenhouse gas with a warming impact at least 25 times greater,
per pound, than carbon dioxide.
Burning
Poop as Fuel
Bacteria that can ‘eat’ pollutants and generate electricity. Bacteria
can eat pollution by converting toxic pollutants into less harmful
substances and generating electricity in the process. As these bacteria
pass their electrons into metals or other solid surfaces, they can produce
a stream of electricity that can be used for low-power applications. Most
living organisms – including humans – use electrons, which are tiny
negatively-charged particles, in a complex chain of chemical reactions to
power their bodies. Every organism needs a source of
electrons and a place to
dump the electrons to live. While we humans get our electrons from sugars
in the food we eat and pass them into the oxygen we breathe through our
lungs, several types of bacteria dump their electrons to outside metals or
minerals, using protruding hair-like wires.
Waste to
Energy
Sweden's
Waste to Energy (video)
Waste 2
Tricity
Waste
Gasification FastOx Gasifier
Plasma Enhanced Melter System
Recovered Energy -
Energy Recovery
Council
Kudzunol -
New
Energy and Fuel
Cellulosic Ethanol (wiki)
Mega Flora Trees
Syngas -
Fermentation
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Bio-Mass -
Land
Fills -
Garbage
Bio-Fuels -
Synthetic Biology -
Bio-Energy.