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Started by trix, July 27, 2016, 05:47:33 PM

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Pergamos

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 03, 2016, 10:49:56 PM
Quote from: Xaz on August 03, 2016, 07:57:18 AM
What happens to everyone's shit at the moment?

Do we just bury it?

Here, we treat it, dry it, and spread it on grazing land as fertilizer.

I am strongly in favor of this.  Poop is a valuable resource, it is excellent fertilizer.  I think we should be getting the methane out too.  It's a dirty process, but a lot cleaner than fracking.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Pergamos on August 06, 2016, 06:51:09 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 03, 2016, 10:49:56 PM
Quote from: Xaz on August 03, 2016, 07:57:18 AM
What happens to everyone's shit at the moment?

Do we just bury it?

Here, we treat it, dry it, and spread it on grazing land as fertilizer.

I am strongly in favor of this.  Poop is a valuable resource, it is excellent fertilizer.  I think we should be getting the methane out too.  It's a dirty process, but a lot cleaner than fracking.

Using shit as food for methanogens doesn't extract something poop already contains, it uses the poop as a carbon source to feed microbes that synthesize methane as a metabolic byproduct. There are various ways to recycle the energy in shit, some are simply more efficient than others.
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