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Waste Management Turns Landfill into Fuel Pump

Christopher DeMorro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:44 +0000

As far as I am concerned, the two biggest problems facing humanity are kicking our addiction to oil, and figuring out a way to get rid of all our garbage without stuffing it into big, endless holes in the ground.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could kill two birds with one stone? One day, we might be able to, but for now at least one company is working on a way to fix their fuel woes within the confines of their own business.

Waste Management, one of the biggest garbage companies in the country, says it will be able to produce 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) daily from just one landfill in Northern California.

MJG #52: Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck: Environmental Superheroes

Joe Mohr — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:13:37 +0000

Long thought of as loud-mouth talking-heads that serve only to divide our nation with their far-right wing positions, it turns out Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck are secretly saving the world one small ecological-footprint at a time.

Here is the first of a series of installments shining a light on what these environmental superheroes are doing to help heal Mother Earth. I only hope the actions of the “Trust-Us League” inspire the masses!

Under the angry, doughy, white exterior lie the ‘green’ innards of men with an undying love for the earth and all of its creatures.

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Gary Busey Confronts Cow Methane Madness (Funny)

Adam Williams — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:03:37 +0000

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Gary Busey is a man of action. He’s taking his massive cow corks to the farm and putting an end to the madness — with the help of an assistant, an unwitting farmer and a few approachable, if displeased, cows.

In Praise of Poop 3: San Antonio Harnesses Power from Sewage Methane

Justin Van Kleeck — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:55:22 +0000

For this the third entry in the annals of excellent excrement (after cow and E. coli poop), we will have to travel deep down into the heart of Texas…and then even farther down into the sewers of San Antonio. So don your rubber body suit, gas mask, and sense of humor, for sewage is no longer just stuff to be dumped and forgotten.

No, San Antonio is out to prove that sewage, and specifically the methane that it gives off oh so (i.e., too) naturally without any bother or cost to us, can be used as a source of alternative fuel…I mean it is natural gas, after all.

In an Associated Press story reported by CNN on its website on September 11, the San Antonio Water System plans to capture methane gas produced by the 140,000 tons of sewage it handles (sorry…bad word choice there) every year.1 Officials estimate that they will be able to capture as much as 900,000 cubic feet of methane annually from this big old pile of people poop.