How to Use biogas in a Sentence

biogas

noun
  • If methane and biogas rise in price, so will the cost of running the box.
    — Michael Kanellos, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2010
  • The leftover odorless sludge is used as compost or in biogas plants.
    — Shrikant Dash, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The region could be key to the future of the biogas industry as well.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The hope is that they will be converted in the future to biogas or hydrogen.
    — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Manure from dairy farm and livestock operations is a prime source of biogas; so is food waste.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • For now, only a small portion of the city’s food waste is converted into biogas.
    — Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The biogas that this process yields is then captured and sold to a local utility, which will use it to heat the area’s homes.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In those burn-off setups, no more than 50 percent of the biogas converts to power.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, food waste is used to create compost, animal feed or biogas.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • The moisture goes into pipes leading to a water treatment plant, where some of it is used to produce biogas.
    — John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Yet where biogas plants are being established, the potential is great.
    — Kavitha Yarlagadda, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
  • While biogas, as it’s known, sounds promising, its potential is limited.
    — Alessandra Bergamin, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Roughly 75 percent of that onion will be transformed into biogas — all used to heat the plant and nearby homes.
    — Robin Shulman Agüeros, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Other sources of biogas include wastewater treatment plants and landfills.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Silvester says the biogas will be used to cook food in a kitchen for the conservancy's anti-poaching patrols.
    — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The byproducts from these processes are used to make biofertilizer and biogas.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The state started giving out more grant money to dairy digester projects, most of which went to three biogas companies that build on huge dairy farms.
    — Rachael Moeller Gorman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There is a role for biogas, experts agree — as a niche product with limited applications.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the food waste goes into a biodigester that breaks it down to turn it into biogas, which is then used to cook vegetables for waste workers to eat.
    — Jennifer McDermott and Joeal Calupitan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The biogas is sold to a local utility, which says it’s used to heat 3,000 homes in Goyang.
    — John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Others rely on fats, oils and greases or refine biogas to produce renewable propane.
    — M Douglas Dagan, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The goal is to cut emissions by processing the biogas into usable, transportable fuel.
    — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The digester would produce fertilizer and methane, a renewable biogas that can be used to cook food and light homes.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Turning it into biogas cuts that in half, said Lee Chang-gee, an engineer at the Goyang plant.
    — John Yoon Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • This biogas voyage produces 50 to 55 metric tons.
    — Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Like many operations across the country, the farm produces biogas through manure digesters.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
  • The technology converts hog waste into biogas, which can be used for heat and electricity.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The biogas must be refined before it can be put into a utility’s natural gas pipeline, or used as fuel for trucks and buses.
    — Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Allocating just 10 percent of a digester’s volume to food waste doubles the biogas yield.
    — Rachael Moeller Gorman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Landfills are some of the most prolific sources of biogas, which also comes from dairies, hog farms and wastewater-treatment facilities.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022

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