How to Use biogas in a Sentence

biogas

noun
  • Instead, food waste is used to create compost, animal feed or biogas.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • 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
  • And biogas projects at factory farms are becoming cash cows for Big Oil, cementing the harms of factory farming on poor, rural communities.
    Amelia Keyes, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024

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