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Let Them Eat Cake: Microbes Turn Food Scraps into Energy

by Area Man | June 19, 2007 at 11:21 am

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I love treehugger. Always a technological development that can make you feel just a bit better about the future of the planet...

Ruihong Zhang, a bioengineer from UC Davis, may have just found a possible solution to this vexing problem: a bioreactor filled with microbes that feast on solids, including foods and yard waste, and convert them into biogas, principally methane and hydrogen. This natural gas can then be burned to produce electricity or compressed into a fuel to power vehicles.

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at 11:42 on June 19th, 2007

Area Man, you are...how shall I say this so as not to create difficulties among the 101,849 other members of NowPublic...extraordinarily extraordinary.

I too am a big fan of TreeHugger.com, and in fact, it is fair to say that it rivals NowPublic for its sheer zestfulness.

Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.