Firm Develops Jet Fuel Made Entirely From Human Poo
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A new aviation company has developed a type of jet fuel made entirely from human sewage.
These are the first three paragraphs.
Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene.
James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels CEO, said: “We wanted to find a really low-value feedstock that was highly abundant. And of course poo is abundant.”
Independent tests by international aviation regulators found it was nearly identical to standard fossil jet fuel.
It certainly seems to have a lot going for it.
I have some other thoughts.
What About Disposable Nappies?
I wrote Are Disposable Nappies A Wasted Resource?, about making hydrocarbon fuels from disposable nappies.
Should Disposable Nappies Be Collected Separately?
My food waste is collected separately in a special bin. Hackney Council say this is what happens to food waste.
Food waste from households in Hackney is sent to an anaerobic digestion facility in south east England, where it’s turned into renewable energy to power homes and biofertiliser to be spread on local farmland to grow crops.
Surely, a similar or appropriate process could be used for disposable nappies.
Biomethane From Sewage Works
In Centrica Signs UK Biomethane Agreement With Yorkshire Water And SGN Commercial Services, I wrote about how Centrica have found a way to distribute biomethane from sewage works using the UK’s gas grid.
Could Firefly take the solids and Centrica the biomethane?
Given that water companies are regularly blamed for spilling sewage could there be an opportunity for a large sewage works to be a major producer of green fuels for agriculture, aviation, industry and road transport.
The Anonymous Widower 