[geeks] ethanol...

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> i'm surprised more municipalities don`t recover the methane from
> sewage treatment plants.
> 
A couple of summers ago I visited a site in Conn where they were 
extracting methane from a landfill and burning it to generate
electricity.  They could power about 1200 homes, excess methane 
was burned off.  Estimated lifetime of the methane in the landfill
was about 15-20 years.  I've also recently read about using some
microorganisms to "eat" the organics of sewage and generate 
electricity.  I believe it was in "Science News" in the last 
couple of weeks.