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1. charlie 12.10.07 / 8pm

   that’s not such a shitty idea!
   good one.
2. John 12.10.07 / 9pm

   Sounds like a good idea, is it viable?
3. Tim 12.11.07 / 8am

   If it were geopolitically stable it could be a good idea. We actually had a project in planning a bit like like this 20 years ago. At the time, London’s sludge was digested and the biogas used to generate electicity. This is still the dominant from of sludge treatment; it is increasing and technologies are being used to increase specific biogas yields.

   The sludge from the two large works downstream of London (serving about 5 million people) was taken by ships to a designated dump site in the North Sea where currents dispersed it. This was due to end in 1998 and we looked at back-loading digested sludge in oil tankers to stabilise the desert area around a highway that ran across the Sahara from the west coast. The alternative stabiliser was crude oil! The road was being inundated with sand repeatedly. Provisionally, aid funding had been agreed for the project. It could have been developed further by collecting from other N. European cites with access to N. Sea ports. There is also an excess of farm animal manure in Belgium and Netherlands compared with the area of farmland on which it can be spread.

   It was a great concept and ticked lots of boxes, however, there was a “but” coming: before we got to pilot testing, Saddam invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Kuwait had been backing the aid, the country with the road came out for Saddam, that was the end of the project. Is it time to look at it again? Or do we have to wait until the Middle East and North Africa are peaceful?
4. Anthony 04.26.08 / 10am

   Do you not think they have their own sewage in the middle east?

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