UK Project Uses Human Sewage as Renewable Energy Source

BBC News

Householders in Didcot have become the first in the UK to use gas made from their own human waste and supplied via the national grid to heat their homes. Up to 200 Oxfordshire homes will be using biomethane made from sewage they had flushed away three weeks earlier. British Gas, Thames Water and Scotia Gas Networks now hope to roll out the process across the UK .. [a gas executive] said the UK was renowned for having the “best gas grid in the world” and so was ideally suited to try out the technology

no shortage of that raw material – mab .. read more

 

 

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