{"id":128822,"date":"2021-10-10T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-mad-science-plan-to-power-the-world-with-poop"},"modified":"2021-10-10T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:28:35","slug":"the-mad-science-plan-to-power-the-world-with-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-mad-science-plan-to-power-the-world-with-poop","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Science Plan to Power the World With Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mad-science-plan-to-power-the-world-with-poop2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Most people don\u2019t give a second thought to the poop they flush away. But perhaps they should, because the energy contained within our repellent remains is impressive.<\/p>\n<p>If you let poop fester\u2014and you probably shouldn\u2019t in polite company\u2014bacterial digestion will produce a methane-rich \u2018biogas\u2019 that can be harnessed for energy. You can also dehydrate a deuce to make powdery fuel or combustible bricks with a similar energy content to coal. These schemes may sound outlandish, but wastewater plants <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/-\/media\/site-content\/corporate-responsibility\/pdfs\/thp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all over the developed world<\/a> take advantage of this salvageable energy to subsidize their operations. One UK-based treatment plant, for example, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/corporate.thameswater.co.uk\/Media\/News-releases\/Sewage-works-running-on-50-per-cent-poo-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gets 50 percent of its power<\/a> using poop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Most people don\u2019t give a second thought to the poop they flush away. But perhaps they should, because the energy contained within our repellent remains is impressive. If you let poop fester\u2014and you probably shouldn\u2019t in polite company\u2014bacterial digestion will produce a methane-rich \u2018biogas\u2019 that can be harnessed for energy. You can also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}