News tagged with anaerobic digesters

Researcher's waste-to-energy technology moves from the lab to the marketplace

(Phys.org) -- Technology invented by a University of California, Davis, researcher that converts solid waste into renewable energy is debuting today as the first commercially available, high-solid anaerobic ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Does converting cow manure to electricity pay off?

Studies have estimated that converting manure from the 95 million animal units in the United States would produce renewable energy equal to 8 billion gallons of gasoline, or 1% of the total energy consumption in the nation. ...

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineering researcher finds new way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New findings by civil engineering researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering shows that treating municipal wastewater solids at higher temperatures may be an effective tool in the fight ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Cars that Run on Cow Power?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Race cars have long provided a testing ground for driving technology that we eventually see in passenger cars on the road. To this end, an engineering team in Lancashire, England, is hoping ...

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 weblog




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Powered by poo: Students use dog waste to light park

Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash.

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Vitamins doing gymnastics: Scientists capture first full image of vitamin B12 in action

You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (47) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

'Poop to power' program turns pig manure into sustainable energy

The nearly 9,000 hogs at Loyd Ray Farms in Yadkin County, N.C., produce 400,000 gallons of manure every week. Since the waste had too high a nitrogen content to be used as fertilizer, owner Loyd Bryant used to pump that waste ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Hog waste producing electricity and carbon offsets

A pilot waste-to-energy system constructed by Duke University and Duke Energy this week garnered the endorsement of Google Inc., which invests in high-quality carbon offsets from across the nation to fulfill ...

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Water purification unit generates its own energy

A new biological water purification facility developed by Siemens generates enough methane gas to power its own operations. It also produces much less sludge than conventional systems. The pilot facility for ...

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created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Biofuels from the sea

Seaweed may prove a viable future biofuel – especially if harvested in summer.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Artificial sweetener leaves lingering aftertaste in the environment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, the global use of artificial sweeteners in foods has dramatically increased. A new study led by Cesar Torres, and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown – researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Curb soot and smog to keep Earth cool, says UN

Sharply reducing emissions of soot and smog could play a critical role in preventing Earth from overheating, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

German probe fixes on restaurant's food chain

Investigators searching for the origin of a killer bacteria were attempting to track supplies made to a north German restaurant where 17 guests fell ill, the press reported here Sunday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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