[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091207/tuk-poo-power-saves-water-firm-15m-6323e80.html]Source[/url]
[quote]A leading water company is celebrating a new type of bottom line - the generation of renewable energy from customers' shit.
Thames Water said it was flushed with success after saving £15 million last year in electricity bills by generating renewable power from the shit produced by 13.6 million customers.
The company said it met 14% of its power needs from either burning sewage sludge or methane derived from it in 2008/9.
Under the scheme, power is generated either by drying sewage into blocks of "shit cake" which is then burnt to generate power or through anaerobic digestion where the methane from sewage sludge is burned to create heat.
The company said once sewage sludge has been used for electricity, it is offered to farmers for use as fertiliser or to developers as landscaping material or soil improver.
Last year, it said, the firm put 100% of its sewage sludge to beneficial use, it said, sending none to landfill.
Dr Keith Colquhoun, Thames Water climate change strategy manager, said "shit power" and other renewable energy sources were helping make "significant" progress towards its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 20% on 1990 levels by 2020.
He said: "There's no polite way of saying this but what we produce - our shit - isn't simply waste, it's a great source of energy.
"That's good news because we treat 2.8 billion litres of sewage every day at our 349 sewage works.
"The solids in sewage have a high calorific content that we use to generate electricity."[/quote]
That's a fine shitty job you did there!
Neat-o
Commence the parade of [i]shitty[/i] puns!
Wow, talk about a [i]shitty[/i] way to save money!
Good on them.
The first post in this thread is rather shitty.
It may work good, but it's still pretty shitty.
Oh man... if i could power my whole house just with my poop? That would be the shit, yo.
I wonder how much money goes down the toilet everyday for these fine folks?
[I]Well that's money not going down the drain.[/I]
Holy shit.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;18788293]Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
You bastard. I was going to say that.
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Shitposting.
Guess the shit hit the [i]firm.[/i]
Well, fuck their shit.
Well that's a shitty plan.
This thread is full of shit puns
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;18788602]This thread is full of shit puns[/QUOTE]
No shit.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;18788602]This thread is full of shit puns[/QUOTE]
Shit yeah!
what the shit
yo dawg whats the scoop on this poop
<Insert witty joke about shit here>
A water company? how about a waste management company?
wow that's a shit load of money saved!
Haha poo jokes.
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[b]This shit just got real[/b]
What a shitty thread.
Shit cake.
Who the shit came up with that?
lol that article was funny
"shit cakes"
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