This is a two-part project originating in Australia. The first is a Melbourne-based effort to collect dog droppings and turn them into biogas for local use. The secondary effect would be to alert dog ...

Greg Langmo’s work is the centerpiece of America’s Thanksgiving dinner table. But finding a use for the by-products of his family-run turkey farm near Litchfield, Minn., has long been a challenge for ...

How many homes could be heated by cow muck? It is not a question I have thought about before, but as Britain searches for sustainable sources of heat, many farmers are looking, well, right under their ...

Human waste is certainly plentiful, but clean? In fact, it is -- if used the right way. That's why some British utilities are planning to harness the biomethane gas produced at sewage treatment plants ...

Data centers often get described as power hogs. But hogs, cows or other livestock might actually be the power source of the future for these energy sucking facilities. Researchers at HP Labs released ...

A college farm has invested £275,000 in technology to turn poo into power for its robotic dairy. The anaerobic digester at Home Farm, on Wiltshire College and University Centre's Lackham campus, takes ...