Electricity can be produced from crap - of the human kind ? Yes !!?

This has been said here before - and I knew it was possible.

However a recent visit by me to a sewage treatment plant in the US, has taken the bliners off my own very eyes.

There, I saw something - most people will not think believable. I had a 3 hour detailed tour of this 80 acre facility wherein human fecal matter is being converted to electricity. Yes, and the strange thing is that this is old technology. They do not sell the electricity to any grid or outside user - they just use it to minimize the cost of their own operational cost. Sadly - they are also restrained and prevented from, selling to the gird - are you ready for this because PG&E and other lobbies don't allow them, and the policies and politicians are also ignorant and against it....

It is possible to convert human fecal matter into electricity - YES. I have seen it being done.

SO why is it not being done - so we can have lower cost fuel and energy and we can save the disease caused by the fecal matter being dumped on railway tracks such as by Indian railways or for that matter in USA, reduce the so called often repeated "dependence on foreign oil" ??

Because, that would lower the prices and make it too good for consumers - and yes, the power monkers and producers - will make "less" of a profit. That is capitalism of the rotten version for us. True and sad. Yes, when capitalism reaches the high point of greed as it has now - it stinks even more than raw sewage - and yes, modern energy producing sewage treatment plants may the salvation of the future. That time is here and it is now possible. This is not science fiction.

Sewage treatment plants - there are probably 2,000 of them in the US and maybe 5,000 or more all over the world at most. Probably less than 1 % of them use the fecal waste to produce energy or electricity from the raw material. Currently these elaborate facilities merely churn out recycled cleaner water used for agricultural purposes, waste water that is considered industrial waste dumped onto The Bay in SF, methane and other gas, and sludge that is used for landfill. The facility itself uses land, labor, money, management, materials, time and chemicals - to do this processing of crap into further waste....

This can be used in a very creative manner if we do the following. Convert into electricity and leave less or NO waste at all. It will solve our energy and electricity problem.

Like India went from being low and very "short" on land-phone-lines, to surplus and freely available cell phones on request - India must leapfrog into the energy surplus equation by using human waste to energy formula. Co-generate energy. This will be the leapfrogging that is monumental and urgently needed. Waste is utilized and converted to a major need while leaving no waste. A no-brain er.

Yes, PM Manmohan Singh is big on nuclear energy. The drawbacks are numerous on that. The dangers of the nuclear waste are high. The politics of weaponization is equally dangerous. In converting human waste to energy - we would be solving many problems in one go. Having numerous synergistic benefits as well...

The benefits are the following :

1. The reduction of diseases from the human waste contaminating air and water.
2. The economic gain from the reduction in death, disease, disability and absenteeism.
3. The human waste management & processing as regards land use becomes altered.
4. If applied on trains etc to start with, the collection process is simplified.
5. Improved health, low cost energy and eco-friendly land to use for other purposes.
6. Alternate fuel from an unlimited "renewable" and in plenty available source !!.
7. Environmental - global warming reduction causing new frontier in technology.
8. Someone once said "free electricity" for all is possible in future - the future is here.
9. Like carbon credits - everybody gets a credit - for their waste production. ha ha. Useful.

This is not a joke. It is real.

Is Manmohan listening ?. I hope so. It is time he started listening to people other than vested interests. We can do it, and we can show the way t do it. Is India ready for low cost or even free energy ? Remember this - you head it here first !!