{"id":474644,"date":"2010-03-24T23:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:43:24","slug":"countdown-to-%e2%80%9cfree%e2%80%9d-renewable-energy-from-sewage-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474644","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to \u201cFree\u201d Renewable Energy from Sewage Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7626\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/24\/countdown-to-free-renewable-energy-from-sewage-begins\/sewage-sludge-can-generate-renewable-energy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7626\" title=\"Sewage sludge can generate renewable energy\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/03\/Sewage-sludge-can-generate-renewable-energy.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers from the University of Nevada are taking steps to commercialize a process for converting sewage sludge to electricity\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a>They prefer to call it wastewater, but the bottom line is that researchers at <a title=\"University of Nevada Technology Transfer Office\" href=\"http:\/\/tto.nevada.edu\/\" >the University of Nevada<\/a> are close to commercializing a process for <a title=\"U of Nevada press release on renewableenergyworld.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/news\/article\/2010\/03\/researchers-test-waste-to-energy-system-at-treatment-plant\" >generating renewable energy from sewage sludge<\/a>.\u00a0 The energy could be used to run equipment at the plants, which is a big deal because sewage treatment plants (okay, so <a title=\"USGS science for schools website\" href=\"http:\/\/ga.water.usgs.gov\/edu\/wwvisit.html\" >wastewater treatment plants<\/a>) are massive energy consumers.\u00a0 Operations like pumping and aerating, skimming off trash, separating grease, drying sludge, and disposing of sludge have a huge carbon footprint, especially when you get into big-city treatment systems that handle hundreds of millions of gallons daily.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, that activity adds up <a title=\"US EPA fact sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/waterinfrastructure\/bettermanagement_energy.html#basicone\" >millions of tons of greenhouse gases<\/a> which could be neutralized by sewage-to-electricity technology.\u00a0 It could also help reverse the relationship between cities and energy; they will produce a good chunk of the energy they use instead of importing it, using wastewater treatment plants and other infrastructure as inexpensive <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/11\/14\/exotic-behavior-shines-a-light-on-piezoelectricity\/\" >clean energy generators<\/a> that help keep local budgets manageable while reducing air pollution and <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/23\/u-s-epa-proposes-new-greenhouse-gas-reporting-rules\/\" >greenhouse gases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/24\/countdown-to-free-renewable-energy-from-sewage-begins\/#more-7623\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=WrNxvMZFqX0:w4HFtnwqDQU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/WrNxvMZFqX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They prefer to call it wastewater, but the bottom line is that researchers at the University of Nevada are close to commercializing a process for generating renewable energy from sewage sludge.\u00a0 The energy could be used to run equipment at the plants, which is a big deal because sewage treatment plants (okay, so wastewater treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}