Mediocrity.US » waste http://mediocrity.us America Doing What America Does Best Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:25:21 +0000 en hourly 1 Texas and Brown Gold http://mediocrity.us/energy/texas-and-brown-gold http://mediocrity.us/energy/texas-and-brown-gold#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:26 +0000 David Barach http://mediocrity.us/?p=221 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Greed and deregulation has sent the US economy into the toilet. The sooner we accept it, the sooner we can use it to start making some money! That’s exactly what San Antonio, Texas is doing. A state that struck it rich with Black Gold is doing it again, but this time with what they are affectionately calling biosolids, or as I like to call it, Brown Gold.

San Antonio will harvest methane gas from the 140,000 tons of human waste that its residents produce per year and turn it into clean-burning natural gas. Does gas get any more natural? Getting methane from human waste isn’t new, but San Antonio plans to use 90% of its human waste which makes it the first large scale project of its kind. They already use the solid waste for composting and the liquid waste for irrigation, this is the next logical step in a state that uses every part of the pig.

Speaking of pigs, I hear only two things come from Texas, and one them is steers. With all the cow and pig farms in Texas, you’d think animal waste would be a more logical step.

Did you see that? I just used logical and Texas in the same sentence. Yeeha!

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