{"id":229,"date":"2016-02-06T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:10:07","slug":"renewable-natural-gas-created-from-human-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/renewable-natural-gas-created-from-human-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable natural gas created from human waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>One town in Colorado giving new meaning to term &#8220;bad gas&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The city of Grand Junction, CO is getting creative with its human waste processing, and, in turn, is now fueling vehicles with renewable natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>The Persigo Wastewater Treatment Plant currently processes Grand Junction\u2019s human waste into renewable natural gas, otherwise known as biomethane, and is then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jan\/16\/colorado-grand-junction-persigo-wastewater-treatment-plant-human-waste-renewable-energy\" title=\"using that biomethane to power a fleet of dozens of city vehicles\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>using that biomethane to power a fleet of dozens of city vehicles<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; garbage trucks, street sweepers, dump trucks and transit buses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Colorado city using human waste to run its vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bu8tNVXjzO\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bu8tNVXjzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Guardian (@guardian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/688337979732049920\">January 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Old idea, new use<\/h3>\n<p>Processing human waste into biomethane is not a brand new concept, and has been utilized in the U.S. for some time. Most commonly, renewable natural gas would ultimately be used to generate electricity through a connection with a generator or series of generators.<\/p>\n<p>But now this Colorado town has taken things a step or two further, and that evidence can be seen driving around on city streets.<\/p>\n<h3>Big environmental impacts<\/h3>\n<p>Oftentimes, common practice for ridding of excess raw gas is to flare it off into the atmosphere. This new practice in Grand Junction could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jan\/16\/colorado-grand-junction-persigo-wastewater-treatment-plant-human-waste-renewable-energy\" title=\"reducing greenhouse gases by as much as 60% to 80%\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>reducing greenhouse gases by as much as 60% to 80%<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other forms of biomethane are possible<\/h3>\n<p>Human waste is not the only source that can ultimately result in reusable biomethane &#8212; landfills, food waste and animal manure are also possible sources.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jan\/16\/colorado-grand-junction-persigo-wastewater-treatment-plant-human-waste-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Guardian<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Grand Junction, CO is getting creative with its human waste processing, and, in turn, is now fueling vehicles with renewable natural gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}