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Sewage Treatment Plants

(with anaerobic methane digesters)

There are over 3000 sewage/biogas plants operating in Europe today...

Sweden operates 5000 vehicles on biogas today...

New York City sewage treatment plants produce 45 million cubic meters of biogas methane per year - most of which is flared and not currently used for heat or electricity...

http://www.clarke-energy.co.uk/clarke_energy/case-study-severn-trent-water.htm

http://www.clarke-energy.co.uk/clarke_energy/case-study-sandon-dock-wwtw.htm

http://www.clarke-energy.co.uk/clarke_energy/case-study-reading-wwtw.htm

http://www.clarke-energy.co.uk/clarke_energy/case-study-watercare.htm

http://brightsurf.com/news/headlines/13620/More_biogas_less_sludge.html

www.cumminspower.com/www/literature/casehistories/F-1631-CanaryIslandWasteTreatment.pdf

Seattle is using fuel cells to generate electricity from sewage biogas today...

http://www.forester.net/de_0511_fuel.html

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg3/121.htm

Also Landfill Methane...

US potential for additional landfill methane power capacity is 3-6 GW...(from the current 1.5 GW today).