Banishing energy-hogging treatment plants and rotting pipes
By Adam M. Bright
Posted 15.01.2020 at 1:49 pm
Every year, Americans produce 12 trillion gallons of wet sewage and burn 21 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to clean it to drinking-water standards. Why not put the smelly stuff to good use? Thanks to clever new technology, sewage will be reclaimed to provide power, produce fertilizer and, eventually, yield clean water. In other words, sooner than you think, you’ll be drinking your own urine.
Turn Sludge into Electricity
Task: Reduce the energy we use to treat wastewater, currently 1.5 percent of our total national power
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