I was watching a video about New York sewage water systems and how they extract biogas from the waste to power nearby buildings? If we would invest more money on to that kind of system, could it replace natural gas demand that there is (example in Germany)?
Sorry my English, not a native speaker.
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Yes and no.
It can and is done [https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/bioenergy-germany](https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/bioenergy-germany) German is the world’s latest producer of biogas and have around 8700 plants that make it
The amount that is produced today is “28.8 million m3 per year of raw biogas is
generated and fed into the gas grid.” according to [https://www.worldbiogasassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WBA-Germany-4ppa4_.pdf](https://www.worldbiogasassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WBA-Germany-4ppa4_.pdf)
Compare that to consumption of 2,872,840 million cubic feet =81,383 million cubv meter[https://www.worldometers.info/gas/germany-natural-gas/](https://www.worldometers.info/gas/germany-natural-gas/)
So the production needs to be 2800x larger to replace all-natural gas.
So biogas can and is produced and added to the gas grid. The prob
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