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Turning Tons Of Food Into Energy  (New)

Date: May 8, 2012
Source: Clean Technica
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American River Packaging in Sacramento will soon begin using an anaerobic digestion system to convert 7.5 tons of daily food waste into 1,300 kWh of renewable energy per day. The technology was developed by Ruihong Zhang, UC Davis professor of biological and agricultural engineering.

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