Have you ever seen the TV show called "Dirty Jobs" where the host, Mike Rowe, takes on some of the most dirty, vile, filthy, crappy, smelly jobs that have ever existed. Mike is the King of POOP. On his show he has shoveled it, hauled it, loaded it, dumped it, sucked it up, blown it out, analyzed it, smelled it, smelled of it, been given a lot of it and he keeps coming back for more of it. Being a fan of Dirty Jobs I'm surprised I haven't heard about Microgy from Mike Rowe. This Microgy is right up his alley. Hey Mike, I think you missed one....
Microgy is a process actually. A process where you take flax and spin it into gold.... well that is the old school version. In the new school version the gold is ENERGY and the flax is POOP! Yepers, poop processing entrepreneurs are now able to turn poop into energy and apparently, since there is a lot of poop in our world, they can make a lot of energy.
It appears that the initial microgy processing is being done at dairy and pig farms. Need I tell you why? They collect the poop and run it through a thing called a digester. Now I be think'n this stuff just came out of a digester but what do I know... heck, I had not even heard of microgy until just this weekend... no thanks to Mike Rowe! But I digress. The digester heats the poop along with a few additives to around 120 degrees and over a relatively short amount of time gas, as in methane, is produced. Lots of it. The gas is collected, the carbon minoxide is removed and you have, amazingly, natural gas. I always wondered what natural gases natural source was.
The source is considered a "renewable source" and I would certainly have to agree with that. I have heard from a reliable source that when we quit poop'n we are either dead or about to explode. So if you ain't re-new-n this source you are in... well, deep doo-doo.
Natural gas really is the gold of today. Look at your natural gas bill if you have any doubt. As oil becomes more expensive alternative sources of energy become more feasible to develop.
I can visualize our sewage processing plants upgrading with "digesters" (they really need a better name for this thing) and turning our contributions to the world into useable energy. I can see poop processing entrepreneurs building the first human microgy plant right in Washington DC, right out behind the halls of Congress. The trend will no doubt filter down to the state and finally local levels of government. Of course once this happens the USA be free from the need of foreign oil because we will have so much energy from processing poop. I can think of a few folks that all by themselves could provide the raw material to power a microgy plant. You will have to fill in their name for yourself.
Think this is a cow-pie-in-the-sky story? Check it out till your hearts content here.
See you in the funny papers.....
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