anerobic digester Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:53:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Turning Turd into Fuel is Officially Rocket Science https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turning-turd-fuel-officially-rocket-science-20141214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turning-turd-fuel-officially-rocket-science-20141214/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:38:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50742 They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. The human waste from the International Space Station and ALL space missions have always been a headache for rocket scientists since the inception of the space program. The practice of all space programs was to dump the astronaut’s err, dump, together with all other trash. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turning-turd-fuel-officially-rocket-science-20141214/feed/ 0 50742 Food Waste Produces 13 Million kWh of Electricity for Supermarket Chain https://www.greenoptimistic.com/food-waste-produces-13-million-kwh-of-clectricity-for-supermarket-chain-20130518/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/food-waste-produces-13-million-kwh-of-clectricity-for-supermarket-chain-20130518/#respond Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37383 West Coast supermarket chain Ralph’s uses leftover fruit and expired meat and milk from its stores to keep generate electricity.  The closed-loop system, to which it is referred, was developed by the Boston start-up Feed Resource Recovery and offsets more than 20% of Ralph’s Compton, CA distribution center’s energy demands. In Ralph’s distribution center that it […]

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