An interesting report commissioned by London Mayor Ken Livingstone shows that new waste treatment technologies could be utilized to produce enough hydrogen gas to power London's entire bus fleet. Household trash would be heated and through processes of gasification and anaerobic digestion could create gases suitable for conversion to hydrogen.
The report estimates that the technology could produce up to 141 tons of hydrogen gas every day by the year 2020. It will also reduce waste buildup in landfills, and prevent the release of methane into the atmosphere from typical waste decomposition.
Houshold waste "could power London buses" » [LetsRecycle.com]
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