Lab Journal (Fuel cell lab and Urban Energy Systems)

 

With rapid development in cities, many issues such as overcrowds and immensely increased need for electricity started to burst. When there are too many people living in the city, sanitation could become a problem because the amount of sewage is increased by a large amount. Especially that many countries such as China are paying more attentions to the environment, creating environment related policies such as not allowing countries to dump their sewage inside their land anymore, United States would have too much sewage to handle and be treated correctly. The environmentalists and designers had to think of some innovative ways to treat the sewage,therefore, they came up with the idea of turning sewage into energy. This process could definitely be used within NYC because this land already have way too much sewage to handle. But one of the problems is that there are still many people who are not discarding their trash properly as they sometimes are lazy to recycle the trash. The one question that I have about this urban energy is that how much does it cost for this process to be done if this is used to generate electricty throughout NYC?