the George W Bush Sewage Plant

Sewage treatment is a necessary if inglorious service. People work hard to make sure it works properly. It would be an insult to the good people who perform this service to name a sewage treatment plant after GWB.

It's a brilliant idea. I think it definitely should be on the ballot.

But i'm not sure which way to vote. The beauty is that either way, it's a slap in the face to GWB!

Think about it: If we vote yes, then we have named a place that is swimming in excrement after that awful, awful man. If we vote no, then we have decided that even a place that is swimming in excrement is worth being named after GWB!!

Such a great idea!!!

Let's get it on the ballot so we can give GWB an electoral slap-in-the-face!!!

I can hardly wait to vote NO on this stupid resolution. Not only are sewage plants a vital necessity to our survival, and fertilizer is necessary for plant growth upon which our food depends, and not only should we respect the labor that makes possible the work of the sewage plants as stated above, but this stupid resolution is an indication of the appalling ignorance on the part of its perpetrators and in fact honors Bush, who is just as despicable as the Democrats who support all his wars, support the Patriot Act, and support the death penalty, namely Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. I do not think the sewage plant should be given any name. The name for the perpetrators of this resolution is IDIOT.

How disappointing that in the U.S. we still haven't learned that our human 'waste' or excrement can provide us with renewable energy!! Flushing human excrement into the ocean is the worst possible scenario, at least save for fertilizer..

Then there composting for fertilizer (humanure) and other options. Of course the byproduct needs to be treated properly, sometimes chemicals of industrial sewage facilities are not effective. However, people have composted their sewage in their backyards with better success..

"The most wasteful piece of equipment ever devised -- the flush toilet.

"Nearly a third of all household drinking water in the US is used to flush toilets" -- Joseph Jenkins, "The Humanure Handbook"

"The function of all organic matter, animal and vegetable, is to maintain the fertility of the soil" -- J.C. Wylie, "The Wastes of Civilization"

Journey to Forever founder member Keith Addison composted humanure when he ran a smallholding in England in the late 1980s. "It was completely innocuous," he says. "One day the landlord and his wife visited us from the Big House. We all had tea on the lawn, a few feet away from a big compost unit with a lot of humanure in it. They didn't notice anything -- her ladyship even spent a while leaning against it while we were chatting. The compost temperature in that unit went up to about 70 degrees Centigrade, so it was completely sanitized. It made good compost."

read on @;
http://journeytoforever.org/compost_humanure.html

For a large urban region like SF, following the model of Kobe City, Japan would be one good solution..

"Bio-Methane from Sewage Sludge to Be Used as Bus Fuel"

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Posted: 11:25 AM JST

"Kobe City in western Japan has decided during fiscal 2006 to prepare for the practical use of bio-methane gas as a fuel for natural gas vehicles. The gas is produced by purifying the gases generated from sewage sludge. This is the first attempt of its kind in Japan.

The new bio-gas was developed jointly by the city and Kobelco Eco-Solutions Co., a subsidiary of Kobe Steel. They started verification tests in October 2004 using a purification system installed at the Higashinada Sewage Treatment Plant. They successfully produced methane gas at 98 percent purity, the same level as city gas, by applying high pressure to the gas generated by microorganisms decomposing sewage sledge, and dissolving impurities such as CO2 and hydrogen sulfide, which make up 40 percent of the gas, in water. In 2005, they began to use this gas to run natural-gas-fueled city buses on a trial basis.

Bio-methane gas is a biomass energy source that does not result in any net CO2 increases in the atmosphere and discharges few atmospheric pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides or sulfur oxides, when burnt. The newly developed gas is seen as a promising clean energy source as it is 30 to 40 percent less expensive than gasoline. The gas is known as "Kobe Biogas", which was selected from among names proposed by the public.

A new purification plant is being built at the Higashinada Plant, with operations planned to begin in spring 2008. It will supply enough bio-methane gas for 40 city buses, each running 50 kilometers per day, or 700 passenger cars, each running 30 kilometers per day.

First published in May 2006 by Japan for Sustainability (JFS). Many thanks to JFS for their kind permission to reprint the article at iKjeld.com."

article found @;
http://www.ikjeld.com/japannews/00000319.php

Don't name ANYTHING after GW Bush!! Let his name be only remembered in shame as a war criminal!!

What needs to be done is to create settling ponds that hold the manure, and then compost the manure and put it back on the land as organic matter. That way the Ocean, Lake, and Rivers living ecological balances remain, so fish and other forms of necessary life can contine. Sewage plants actually exterminate the lower forms of life that the fish and wildlife depend on as feed. Chlorination of the drinking water destroys ozone and causes wildlife to become infertile and birds egg shells to become too thin to bring life into the world. You ought to elect an organic farmer for president and allow him or her to show you the path to liberation. Viva social liberation from excessive overwrapping sterile treatment of the worlds' organic matter.

Around the Italian boot and its Rivera in particular is offshore a three mile destruction of all life zone, put there by the Italian fascists who built sewage dumping in the Ocean. It is quite a sight to see balding fascists laying on the beach which reaks of manure smells while the lifeless three mile belt of ocean sends back its unbelievable putred smells. Don't fool yourselves. Back composting manures in settling ponds and put the composted manure back on the farm lands as organic matter. The Peasant classs needs re-establishing in America and the Cosmopolitan Imperialist countries. Excessive industrialization has destroyed the living ecological balances of life. Air , land, and water are being sterilized and killed outright with wrongheaded science. Back to natures laws for livability and quit lying and polluting the world for money. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more pollution.