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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇

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Wow! And I thought this was a 1990s thing, but maybe it took the tech that long to be viable. So, now convinced the chickenshit car was about methane digesters, which turn out to be a very hard thing to do at mid-scale as in taking all the food waste from a 50,000+ person campus and converting it

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that's my read too - like much alternative energy, there was initial interest 72-73, boom in 79-80, retreat from 81 through the rest of the decade, and gradual reawakening of interest/technical improvement) in 90s. even by 82 the Guymon project had mostly failed.

eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/1...

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