sewage treatment plant Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:03:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sewage Water Turned into Beer at US Treatment Facility https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-water-turned-beer-20150202/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-water-turned-beer-20150202/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:03:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=52842 The US water management utility company, Clean Water Services, claims to be in a possession of a water treatment system that can convert human urine in pure drinking water. To demonstrate that, they approached a local  beer brewing company, who should turn the liquid gold into a pub’s essential. Imagine the following situation. You walk […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-water-turned-beer-20150202/feed/ 1 52842 Bacteria Could Make Sewage Treatment Plants Turn From High Energy Consumers to Producers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/anammox-bacteria-sewage-treatment-20100513/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/anammox-bacteria-sewage-treatment-20100513/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 19:42:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7598 Sewage treatment plants always consume energy to filter water (around 44 watt-hours per day per person). They use three types of bacteria and energy to pump oxygen for the first type of bacteria and methanol for the second. Adding the fact that methanol is also produced through an energy-intensive process... you can pull the conclusions.

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