Green Options » waste-to-power http://greenoptions.com/tag/waste-to-power Posts tagged 'waste-to-power' Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en City to Pipe Biogas from Farms to Power Recycling Plant http://sustainablog.org/2008/11/20/city-to-pipe-biogas-from-farms-to-power-recycling-plant/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/11/20/city-to-pipe-biogas-from-farms-to-power-recycling-plant/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:27:32 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://sustainablog.org/2008/11/20/city-to-pipe-biogas-from-farms-to-power-recycling-plant/

After years of debate and planning, the St. Paul, MN city council has voted unanimously to move forward with a unique plan to produce biogas from manure and ethanol waste in rural farms and pump it miles to power an enormous paper recycling plant.

The energy-efficiency of recycling paper is not the best, so this plan is a welcome alternative-fuel twist to the standard process.

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