Biogas
New York City’s Massive New ‘Clean, Renewable Energy’ Composting Program Won’t Create Clean Energy
The city is calling it the country’s largest composting program that will also provide renewable energy. Experts call it greenwashing.
Your Shit-Powered Car of the Future Could Be Five Years Away
A new report explores the possibilities of using waste of all sorts—human, animal, and chemical—to power heating and transport.
Cheese Can Now Power a Town — in France, of Course
In a large snow-white globe on the edge of the small Alpine town of Albertville, bacteria bred in whey are hard at work generating biogas: a clean, renewable energy source that can also be used to produce electricity.
Poop Power Is a Surprisingly Versatile Fuel Source
The UK just debuted buses that run on sewage. But that’s just the latest innovation in the millennia-old story of poop-based fuel.
Ben & Jerry's Built an Ice Cream Factory That Runs on Ice Cream
For the last year and a half, Ben and Jerry's says its factory in the Netherlands has been churning out ice-cream powered ice cream.
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