Arizona City Turns Crap to Cash Turns Dog Poop to Green Energy Light

by copythis

While Florida residents are performing DNA testing on dog poop left behind by homeowners, to fine dog owners, perhaps the Jupiter HOA is missing the point: They could be making money off that doggie doo left behind. A Phoenix-area suburb is considering a plan to turn dog waste that's collected from a public park into a green energy source. It's a brilliant idea that's literally creating light.
 
The Gilbert city council in Arizona is deciding this summer whether to go ahead and have Arizona State University students design and create a "dog waste digester". That waste digester would literally turn unscooped poop into into a form that releases methane gas. The methane gas would first be used to run a street lamp in Gilbert -- but other uses for the unavoidable and endless supply of dog poop, down the line, may be limitless.
 
The idea is that Phoenix-area, Arizona, dog owners would place their canine's fecal matter in a biodegradable bag, simply drop the poop into a "digester", then turn a crank to get the process rolling. ASU says that poop digester would use Arizona's worthy amounts of sun to help break down the fecal matter and turn it into a gas.
 
Leave it to college students to decide how to turn crap into cash.

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