up our wastewater before pumping it into our rivers and oceans,

this costs tax payers billions of kilowatt hours per year!

Scientists are now finding that this sewage can produce many

times the energy that it would cost to correctly dispose of it,

so they are turning it into energy and using that energy

to clean that wastewater, with so much energy left over,

they can also power generators with electricity.

According to a paper by the State of the Science Report:

Energy and Resource Recovery from Sludge
(Published by the Global Water Research Coalition)

converting solids to energy is feasible and desirable,

from a treatment perspective.

Just think what a mini power plant in our trains,

planes and ships could do to save fuel.

Tidal Power

Tidal power is very easy to understand however,

as Tidal power is energy from the sea.

There are three basic ways to tap the ocean for its energy.

We can use the ocean's waves, we can use the ocean's high and

low tides, or we can use temperature differences in the water.

See how Tidal Power Plants Work and Ways to

Harness Tidal Power in the links below.

A new Fuel Source?

The Long Leaf pine trees are a protected tree here in Florida

and much of the South, yet I keep seeing truck after truck

of our Florida fresh cut pine trees heading north.

I have learned that companies are chipping and grinding trees

to make fuel for factories now using oil or gas.

From Florida up to the Carolina's we have

Palmetto bushes that people seem to hate,

so why not grind and chip them into this fuel?

There is much discussion about bio fuel made from

corn, sugarcane, switch grass, wood chips, algae,

wheat, straw and so on.

Well, how about the extremely abundant Palmetto bush

found in much of Florida and the Carolina's?

For years people have been looking for ways to use them,

or at the very least of finding ways to get rid of them,

so why not mix them with everything else for bio fuel?

Places to learn more: