Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Energy From Sewage | Thread profile

When a newly developed technology for producing hydrogen gas from biowaste is brought to commercial use – as researchers believe it can be – then it appears the world will have plenty of energy if it can just solve the stubborn shortage of sewage. Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Viable Energy From Sewage

Impressive. Quote: Studies suggest that this approach could reduce the amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen by as much as 75 percent, compared with hydrogen production by water electrolysis. More work needs to be done to reduce the cost for electrode materials and more advances in efficiency are possible, experts say. Quote:...

I just laid a brown bomb that could produce approximately 69 kilowatts of electricity.

What's a brown bomb ? 69kW sounds like a fair amount of domestic power.

Quote: Originally Posted by LMagic007 What's a brown bomb ? 69kW sounds like a fair amount of domestic power. It's, erm, a number 2

Quote: Originally Posted by arno I just laid a brown bomb that could produce approximately 69 kilowatts of electricity. Nice image there dude

They already do this. Using methane produced from the sludge, treatment plants use the gas to power generators and pumps. A treatment plant in Seattle generates a good percentage of its own power from digester gas.