Waste Recycled for Energy
24 April 2008 05:48 PM Filed in: Alternative Energy
By Kat Vaughan
Where poverty exists one can usually find water contamination and diseases attributed to refuse and extended use of open fire stoves. Now, through biogas, the simple process of anaerobic digestion (without oxygen), energy is created through human waste, animal waste, and/or kitchen garbage. Just think about it - your waste can be used for energy! In the developing world, this is really novel; clean the communities of its refuse while extending life and giving energy!
AIDG (Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group) is currently designing a small-scale biodigester in Guatemala. They are processing pig waste into fuel that can be used like natural gas, propane or fertilizer. This type of processing helps to keep animal waste out of water for drinking and provides an alternative to wood burning.
Around the world, this new form of energy creation is being used for the poor. Environmentally and cost effective, biogas also decreases respiratory and eye illnesses, often the result of using open wood fires year after year.
Now, why can't we fund this type of development instead of senseless wars, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund?
Where poverty exists one can usually find water contamination and diseases attributed to refuse and extended use of open fire stoves. Now, through biogas, the simple process of anaerobic digestion (without oxygen), energy is created through human waste, animal waste, and/or kitchen garbage. Just think about it - your waste can be used for energy! In the developing world, this is really novel; clean the communities of its refuse while extending life and giving energy!
AIDG (Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group) is currently designing a small-scale biodigester in Guatemala. They are processing pig waste into fuel that can be used like natural gas, propane or fertilizer. This type of processing helps to keep animal waste out of water for drinking and provides an alternative to wood burning.
Around the world, this new form of energy creation is being used for the poor. Environmentally and cost effective, biogas also decreases respiratory and eye illnesses, often the result of using open wood fires year after year.
Now, why can't we fund this type of development instead of senseless wars, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund?
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