FOB Mess Hall Garbage as a Power Source
Greenwire, 12 Mar 08: New technology will turn Army trash into power in Iraq
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....The Army will deploy two $1 million, four-ton biomass refineries to Iraq in early May to turn the piles of trash discarded in mess halls into electricity. Each generator will be capable of running for 20 hours on 1 ton of trash, providing enough power to light a small village.
Defense contractors and Purdue University scientists designed the refineries in an effort to reduce the military's diesel fuel use because fuel convoys are frequently targeted by insurgents.....
Flush the loo, warm your house
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Norwegians can now heat their homes and offices by flushing the toilet.
The
sewage heat pump plant, which began operating last week, uses fridge technology to tap heat from raw sewage and direct it back to the country's capital Oslo.
Actually formulating methods for energy recovery from sources such as these has a very long and distinguished history:eek:
Here is a link to this months oil-market report by IEA and some insight to what is driving oil prices...