Huh?

Mongolian invasion or another immigration issue ?

In before suggestions concerning Washington, DC and it's projected Terawatt-level production possibilities.

Well, really, what else does Brooklyn have to work with? There aren't many cows to provide feedstock for a reactor, for instance. No farms to speak of at all, really.

Ya just gotta work with what ya got ta work with, y'know?

But really, it shouldn't be too difficult to attach an installation to the local waste treatment plants and generate enough methane to actually do something. If they can figure out how to draw off the gases from landfills and route it to a generator, this might just work!

Wasn't aware that Newtown Creek's gas was clean enough to feed back into the system. I bet they're mostly off grid, though. Most large sewer plant around NYC are at least partially off grid these days, and I know of two that are totally off grid. Actually, I think Newtown is too.

/Works in the industry
//Doesn't see why this is newsworthy

PsychoPhil: Wasn't aware that Newtown Creek's gas was clean enough to feed back into the system. I bet they're mostly off grid, though. Most large sewer plant around NYC are at least partially off grid these days, and I know of two that are totally off grid. Actually, I think Newtown is too.

/Works in the industry
//Doesn't see why this is newsworthy

They're saying that this will be (kind of) supplying the grid instead of taking from it now.

shiatty article is shiatty.

Didn't Charlie try this in an episode of Always Sunny?

anerobic digestion has been used to process and utilize human waste and compost for years now, china and india have used it both for rural and urban areas. Cattle ranches in northern california are now collecting the manure for the same reasons. it's may sound like s#¡††y idea, but being green has just gone brown. dung.

On a related note: If you fart in church, you have to sit there in your own pew.