I See the Light

The U.S. Department of Energy is funding a $5 million pilot project to turn sewage into electricity. “The idea is to use the stuff to produce energy rather than have it detract from our land by putting it into landfills and so on,” said Otis Mills, spokesman for the DOE’s Federal Energy Technology Center in Pittsburgh, Pa. “Initiatives like these prepare America for the next century. We’ll never run out of this stuff, obviously. We produce lots of it.” (Reuters) ...And that’s just the government.