W EEKLY EDITION OCT 14 , 2015
Washington D.C. Wastewater is Generating Electricity
D.C. Water is using something is has a lot of – biosolids – otherwise known as poop, to generate something it needs:
electricity. Created by a Norwegian company called Cambi, the process is called "thermal hydrolysis." The basic idea is to
cook the biosolids into a recipe that methane - making microbes cannot resist; then it burns the methane to generate
power.
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