Owning a dog can be costly...both environmentally and monetarily. But now energy is the newest addition to the list of the things your dog gives back to you.
I don't know if you can call it clean energy...it is crap, after all...but it's definitely smart energy.
Here's what GreenUpgrader says,
The [MIT-funded] Park Spark Project uses an underground Methane Digester to turn doggie waste into usable energy. Dog owners pick up their pups' waste using special bags that they toss right into the digester. Once you toss the bag inside, you give the machine a quick stir, and it burns the methane to produce fuel.
Not only does the project mean free, clean energy for parks, it means keeping all of those plastic bags of dog waste out of the landfill. Like any kind of organic matter, dog poo produces methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than CO2, when it breaks down in a landfill. The whole basis of this project is to harness that methane to power lights and other park amenities.
Right now, they're deploying the project in Cambridge, but they hope to expand it to parks in other cities.
Happy pooper-scooping.
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