[Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 15, Issue 16

[Harmon Seaver]

Katahdin Energy Works wrote:
> One wonders what the cost to enhance/upgrade our local sewerage treatment
> plants into bio-gas production facilities would be...it is worthy of a
> national program..what about the distribution network for the gas....or
> should electric production be integrated into sewerage treatment plants?  
> 
> Surely some energy wonk 'out there' must be doing a paper on these costs
> vies a vi the cost of corn to methanol, for example. ..... are sewerage
> treatment plants an unexploited energy reserve?
> 

    When I suggested on a blog that the local sewage treatment plant
should stop flaring off all the gas they collected and save it to burn
for heat or run a generator, they actually ran a news article in the
paper saying what a bad idea that was, that it was far too dirty to use
for anything and had to be burned. The same newspaper had previously run
articles about the gas from a landfill in the state being used to run a
generator, and gas from a digester at a large dairy feedlot being used
to produce electricity. Go figure!


-- 
Harmon Seaver