A buttload of energy: This Alberta town is turning poop into a ton of biofuel products
Wanna hear a crappy joke? What happens when a town adopts a new plan for wastewater? It gets filled with scuttlebutt! Haha, nice. Anyway, the Albertan town of Chestermere has announced a new way to deal with sewage- turning it into biofuel.
No seriously, this is a real thing. Instead of traditional wastewater facilities, the town has partnered with a few private companies to come up with a new solution. Well, a new old solution.
Most of us don’t think twice about what happens when we flush the toilet, but for the folks at @Magna_Eng and Eco-Growth Environmental Inc., they see it as a fountain of opportunity.
Learn about an innovative pilot project in #Chestermere at https://t.co/Yd8Eq38jwz pic.twitter.com/CAF3XHVFKn
— City of Chestermere (@CityChestermere) September 3, 2020
Basically, the new process will separate liquids from solids (gross). The liquids will be treated through an engineered wetland system before heading elsewhere. Meanwhile, the solids will be fully dehydrated and burned.
Why burned? Good question. After getting torched, the ashes become legitimate biofuel, and can be used for fertilizer or, weirdly, as road-building material. Guess the backroads around Alberta are about to go down the toilet!
Sorry, but we just can’t help ourselves right now. If you’d like to learn more about the new plan in Chestermere, just click here!
