Biogas plant that has raised hopes in Flint could be operating in 2009

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Biogas plant that has raised hopes in Flint could be operating in 2009

Posted by Melissa Burden | Flint Journal business columnist January 01, 2009 10:20AM

FLINT, Michigan -- The alternative energy plant that will convert human waste into biogas -- and has raised hopes that it will help the city's faltering economy -- could be operating this year.

"I would say that it would be at some level running in late '09 or early 2010," said Suzanne Kayser, the city of Flint's economic development director.

But it could be sooner, said Ron Moffett, sector manager for bioenergy for the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

The project is a partnership between the city, state, Kettering University and Swedish Biogas International.

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1. In the local industrial park

there is a soybean plant that does whatever they do to soy to make it acceptable for human consumption that have several large ponds where they pump the waste too and they are covered with large rubber mats, close to a half of an inch thick that captures the methane gas and that gas is fed back to the plant to use for the heat they use in the processing. Those ponds smelled just like human shit before they put the covers on several years ago. So if they can do this on their sediment ponds there is no reason why we can't do the same over our waste ponds.

Edit: changed plant to park