Sewage - a low cost, low carbon way to heat homes
Sewage - a low cost, low carbon way to heat homes
www.bbc.co.uk The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains
In this part of Vancouver, innovative technology is harnessing heat from wastewater and using it as a renewable energy source to heat homes.
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The concept discussed in the article is much more interesting than the headline suggests. It's about recapturing waste heat in wastewater, which primarily relates to the energy in hot shower water and other hot water poured down drains.
I read the headline to be about the organic compounds in human waste and potentially burning them for the chemical energy in those compounds.
Or maybe it was just me.
I too thought it was about burning the poo poo....