GROSS! How to Make Methane Gas | Earth Science

Dominic shows Fran and Greg how to create methane gas by recreating a digestive system.

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[llantup]

Oh, having lived on a farm, I can attest to how lovely that smell is. In a studio like this, I think I'd have wanted a gas mask!

[carllelendt]

I'm retired. However, prior to retiring from a large municipal sewage treatment facility, the facility's anaerobic digesters produced a huge continuous (24/7) amount of methane, which was, probably still is, used as fuel for "cogeneration." Methane not used onsite, was either burnt-off or used to power generators for selling electricity back into the commercial grid.

[Mrwheresmyhouse]

"Just kind of replicating the human digestive system"

Yeah, the digestive system of a person who eats raw ground beef and orange peels.

[dhawthorne]

For any future commenters who want to gripe about the waste of food; large scale bioreactors use food waste and any other inedible organics for methane production.
Ethanol plants are also in the process of switching to corn stalks and leaves, switchgrass and algae for their methods of production so they have a positive or neutral impact on food supply.

[gsurfer]

I'm a PhD chemist and I still loved this.

[MrChhetri]

We had a household methane gas plant at home. We had household animals like cows, buffaloes, goats so always had sufficiency of raw materials. ;) The was even a ceiling lamp powered by gas. Bio-gas plant is a good option of energy if your guts are powerful enough. :D

[MrCityGaming]

There was me thinking they actually were gonna run a go kart :(

[yetinother]

Another incomplete clip, chopped off on both beginning and end, leaving me wondering why i watched it in the first place... :-(

[knocknockify]

This video really turns me off of the IHOP pancakes commercial I got before this video started

[khalaylapurcell]

*one ingredient you need to add to that*
Me:*PooP*

[xaviern]

Can you post set by step instructions and materials needed.

[CristianoRonaldo-wtoj]

So when you say "someone has gas", you mean he has methane?

[holymacaroni]

For my research purposes, what are those ingredients that were chopped off? And what is the name of the tube that they lit the fire from?

[lexnguyen]

So that's why sewer lids dont like fire crackers

[TheRustAdmin]

it's not disgusting, it's science.

[PumpkinSeries]

Wanted to know if I can produce methane from all the useful biomass from our produce left overs. But I feel they would mostly go to worms to grow worm dung for fertilizer.

[melanatedtennessean]

So there's methane in my stomach? I haven't ate for hours so there's must been lots of methane being produced in my stomach, plus burping and farting. lol lol

[Selfhatingalabamian]

With these rising gas prices we should take poop from Tennessee and turn it into methane fuel to power cars.

[mrslcom]

No hydrochloric acid to mimic the process of digestion?

[robertsweet]

Can you use other manure, such horse, chicken or even human?