Dan Boyce

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Grand Junction, Colo., is now the first city in the U.S. to fuel its vehicle fleet with natural gas produced from human waste. (Photo: Rebecca Jacobson | Harvest Public Media)

The Other Natural Gas: Making Energy From Waste

By Dan Boyce | January 17, 2016

Every day, a facility on the outskirts of Grand Junction, Colorado takes in eight million gallons of what people have flushed down their toilets and washed down their sinks. The water coming out the other end of the Persigo Wastewater Treatment Plant is cleaner than the Colorado River it flows into. The organic solids strained from…