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sewage into gas

Ken68
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/oct/05/human-waste-turned-renewable-gas

"You see that blue stuff down there Young George, that's BULLSHET, and that green slime, that's the energy door knockers, and that yellow streak is The Regulator. We get it all here. "
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  • wow, you mean sewage gives off methane?

    well ill go to the foot of our stairs stanley.................
  • Pincher
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    Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

    Everything in Sci-fi movies are true!

    When they digitally re-master Thunderdome for HD/3D release,
    they should photoshop a Centrica badge onto Master's boiler suit.
    Blaster is actually a plumber's mate working on his Gas Safe accreditation, before the holocaust.

    Now we know where the Thunderdome will be located in the future.

    Pre-quel!

    Tina Turner found an abandoned bio-mass gas facility, where Master/Blaster are living. She starts building Barter Town, using human and animal waste to keep the works running. Bandits come sniffing around, she makes a deal with them. In exchange for protection, they get an engine conversion to run on LPG or petrol. Dual fuel. That explains how they can keep their mobile army on the road. In a climactic battle, Tina Turner becomes leader of the gang.

    Halle Berry plays the younger Tina Turner.
    The real Tina can do the sound track.
  • Ken68
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    Good one Pincher....They're heating their own shet.
  • lemontart
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    edited 8 October 2010 at 2:54PM
    it is already happening National Grid in partner ship with United Utilties in Manchester here is doing such - http://www.unitedutilities.com/4082.aspx - here in association with thames water -http://www.gizmag.com/human-waste-to-gas-project-goes-live/16572/ also there is a massive project in the states doing similar with National Grid

    If you start to feel woozt could be the boozy gas from a brewery in suffolk in association with National Grid - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-11499145

    and those are just the ones i can recall of the top of my head, NG is working very hard at finding and bringing online renewal sources of both natural gas and powering the electricity network both here and in the USA
    I am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.
  • This SUCH old technology!

    Every landfill site in the UK draws gas off the rubbish and burns it off, ive seen some 20ft high flames burning for 10 years

    In WW2 (and dads army) gas bags were fitted above cars to hold gas to run them off methane
  • Ken68
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    One day, a farmer will realise the income from animal burps.
    Maybe some kind of fart gas exchange mechanism in the cattle shed :)))
  • Terrylw1
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    In WW2 (and dads army) gas bags were fitted above cars to hold gas to run them off methane


    "Up 2, 3, 4
    Bang 2,3,4
    Bang 2,3,4
    Bang 2,3,4"

    Classic!!!:rotfl:
    :rotfl: It's better to live 1 year as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm...but then, whoever heard of a wormskin rug!!!:rotfl:
  • Terrylw1
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    Ken68 wrote: »
    One day, a farmer will realise the income from animal burps.
    Maybe some kind of fart gas exchange mechanism in the cattle shed :)))


    It's going to be great if they ever figure out how to fit you an import/export meter.

    Then in the words of the French in Monty Python's The Holy Grail "I fart in your general direction".

    Would the FIT payment become a FART? :rotfl:

    Besides, I've got a better plan. We need a scientist who figures out how to power the grid based on hot air. Then we should be able to remove all other power overnight and power it off the BS energy companies & Ofgem spout! Some sort of BS hotair capture device fitted in every meeting room. Also, should a sales agent come knocking...plug him into something that powers back to the grid.
    :rotfl: It's better to live 1 year as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm...but then, whoever heard of a wormskin rug!!!:rotfl:
  • lemontart
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    edited 10 October 2010 at 5:25PM
    http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=14&Cod=5803&Nombre=News

    cow dung energy

    more on the subject of animal produced methane
    http://www.earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm

    I could list loads more but do not wish to bore you
    I am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.
  • Lube
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    Pipe it in to No10 lot of dung comes from there ;)
    Ken68 wrote: »
    Good one Pincher....They're heating their own shet.
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