How to Use biogas in a Sentence
biogas
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If methane and biogas rise in price, so will the cost of running the box.
— Michael Kanellos, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2010 -
Over the process of years, it is transformed into biogas.
— Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021 -
The biogas is sold to a local utility, which says it’s used to heat 3,000 homes in Goyang.
— John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023 -
The biogas that this process yields is then captured and sold to a local utility, which will use it to heat the area’s homes.
— Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023 -
In those burn-off setups, no more than 50 percent of the biogas converts to power.
— Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2022 -
One of the end products is biogas, which includes methane.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021 -
The hope is that they will be converted in the future to biogas or hydrogen.
— Daniel Markind, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 -
It’s at Goodrich Dairy using manure and food waste to produce biogas.
— Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2022 -
Turning it into biogas cuts that in half, said Lee Chang-gee, an engineer at the Goyang plant.
— John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023 -
Roughly 75 percent of that onion will be transformed into biogas — all used to heat the plant and nearby homes.
— Robin Shulman Agüeros, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023 -
The moisture goes into pipes leading to a water treatment plant, where some of it is used to produce biogas.
— John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023 -
For now, only a small portion of the city’s food waste is converted into biogas.
— Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 2 June 2017 -
Some of the food waste goes into a biodigester that breaks it down to turn it into biogas, which is then used to cook vegetables for waste workers to eat.
— Jennifer McDermott and Joeal Calupitan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Manure from dairy farm and livestock operations is a prime source of biogas; so is food waste.
— Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020 -
The used grounds are made into compost, topsoil, or turned into biogas.
— Anne Quito, Quartz, 13 Aug. 2019 -
Silvester says the biogas will be used to cook food in a kitchen for the conservancy's anti-poaching patrols.
— Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019 -
The state started giving out more grant money to dairy digester projects, most of which went to three biogas companies that build on huge dairy farms.
— Rachael Moeller Gorman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023 -
First, fuels such as biogas or ethanol would be extracted.
— Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2019 -
About a quarter of the more than 2,000 U.S. landfills now harvest their gas or process their waste into biogas using biodigesters.
— Michael E. Webber, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021 -
The digester would produce fertilizer and methane, a renewable biogas that can be used to cook food and light homes.
— Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018 -
Duke, Dominion, and Smithfield are all predictably bullish on the potential of biogas and have spent the past few years talking it up to anyone who will listen.
— Nick Martin, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021 -
Loyd Ray Farms has been turning its animal waste into biogas since 2011.
— Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014 -
The founder, Rudy Roeslein, was a conservationist who saw a way to apply his production system to process biogas.
— Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021 -
The byproducts from these processes are used to make biofertilizer and biogas.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022 -
The goal is to cut emissions by processing the biogas into usable, transportable fuel.
— Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022 -
Yet where biogas plants are being established, the potential is great.
— Kavitha Yarlagadda, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022 -
Pipeline companies and utilities are key to a biogas boom.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020 -
Allocating just 10 percent of a digester’s volume to food waste doubles the biogas yield.
— Rachael Moeller Gorman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Instead, food waste is used to create compost, animal feed or biogas.
— Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 12 June 2024 -
The new facility will also utilize biogas, which is a renewable fuel produced with organic matter, to create electricity onsite.
— Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2024
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