Sewage, beer and food scraps making Natural Gas in Ohio
Governor Kasich & his oil(y) sponsors must hate this.
2014-10-23 / Top News
Sewage, beer and food scraps power Chevy’s bi-fuel Impala
"Cleveland-based Quasar Energy Group uses organic waste to produce a renewable energy source known as biogas, which is then converted into compressed natural gas — one of two fuels that can power the 2015 Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala.
...Since biogas can be made from most organic materials, quasar insources raw materials, otherwise considered waste, from a variety of industries. For instance, its Columbus, Ohio, Renewable Energy Facility processes up to 25,000 wet tons of biosolids from the city of Columbus Department of Public Utilities for wastewater.
Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, contributes food waste for CNG production after it has been macerated in an industrial-sized InSinkErator Grind2Energy garbage disposal.
And don’t forget beer: Anheuser-Busch’s Columbus brewery provides an organic by-product to quasar for conversion to methane gas.
"If you can buy renewable fuel at $1.95 per gallon while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, everybody wins,” said Mel Kurtz, president of quasar energy group. “Quasar’s Columbus facility can produce 1.3 million gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG each year.”"
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