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To: BSD who wrote (3116)	9/19/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: John Curtis	Respond to of 5827

BSD: Regarding that type of idea, here's a small article in the October, 1998 issue of Scientific American, page 32. ------- Entitled Breakthrough Brewing? Fuel cells, which combine hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity, have yet to achieve widespread use in industry. But they seem to have found a foothold in brewing. Fuel cells made by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation are providing power to Asahi and Sapporo breweries in Japan, according to Nikkei America, and the Kirin Brewery Company's Tochigi brewery will be installing a fuel cell next year, utilizing hydrogen made from the methane produced during the brewing process. ------- HEY!, What an idea! Take one of your downtown microbreweries, plop some fuel cells in 'em to capture the methane byproducts and viola, suds electric!! Heh! Great idea though, eh? John~

To: BSD who wrote (3116)	9/19/1998 6:08:00 PM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

Landfills are another source of Methane. Currently in Ballard's backyard are one old landfill suppling Methane to a cement plant to fire burners and another land fill currently being considered to be turned into a park. But get this, they just plan to VENT the Methane. It is a PRIME opportunity for Ballard Generation Systems to show their stuff. CL >>>> Are there other processes besides an entire waste reprocessing plant that can extract methane from "waste" in usable quantities. <<<<