The Dean Kamen series ‘ Dean of Invention’ featured the Aquacritox sludge to energy technology in the episode Gonzo for Guano, which permiered on the Discovery Channel on November 11th 2010. Paul O’Callaghan, O2 Environmental, provided an overview of the technology outlining how it can help to unlock the energy contained in wastewater.
If you could take just one day’s excrement from all the humans and cows in the world and harness the energy locked inside, you’d have enough electricity to power New York City for seven years. Until recently, all that waste was just going to waste. But now, Dean of Invention unveils how the race is on to develop processing plants that can harness this previously pooh-poohed waste into power.
The episode, entitled Gonzo for Guano, featured the Aquacritox technology and was filmed at a Demonstration Scale facility in Cork, Ireland. Paul O’Callaghan, O2 Environmental, who helped out with the technology overview and plant walk-through enjoyed working on the documentary and said ‘It was a lot of fun working with the Discovery film crew, they did a really excellent job of illustrating how the technology works and the potential to generate energy from wastewater’.
