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Methane made by microbes eating your garbage so you don't have to.
means A fuel gas, mostly methane, produced when bacteria break down organic waste like manure, sewage, or food scraps in the absence of oxygen.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: Greek 'bios' (life) bolted onto 'gas' itself a word coined much earlier by a Flemish chemist riffing on 'chaos.' The term rose alongside anaerobic digestion technology, as engineers needed a plain label for gas made by living microbes rather than drilled from ancient dead ones.
- recipe
- cow manure, food scraps, and sewage, fermented anaerobically
- output
- mostly methane plus carbon dioxide, surprisingly flammable
- byproduct bonus
- leftover sludge doubles as fertilizer
- scale fact
- landfills already capture it to power nearby homes