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Bay Daily: Flush Light

Imagine if, every time you flushed your toilet, it generated electricity. You could read at night by flushlight. Instead of flattening mountains to extract coal as a power source, you could run your laptop with people power. It may sound odd, but a major project to transform human waste into electricity is now under construction at the largest sewage treatment plant in the region, Blue Plains in... moreImagine if, every time you flushed your toilet, it generated electricity. You could read at night by flushlight. Instead of flattening mountains to extract coal as a power source, you could run your laptop with people power. It may sound odd, but a major project to transform human waste into electricity is now under construction at the largest sewage treatment plant in the region, Blue Plains in Washington DC. Thousands of jobs for engineers, laborers, computer technicians, and others are being created as part of a series of construction projects –- costing a total of more than $3 billion --... view page