An eventual use of the natural gas could be as a vehicle fuel. The city now spends about $8.7 million on its vehicle fleet and maintenance, Warner said.

Most existing anaerobic digesters that produce renewable natural gas have run on dairy manure, so it's essential to pencil out how they would perform on a grass diet, Mba-Wright said.

“To replace natural gas with resources that revitalize sustainable agriculture, we have to be able to quantify how much energy we can produce and show it can be cost effective and environmentally ...

When burned, natural gas produces carbon dioxide, the leading cause of climate change. But gas plants can be built faster than nuclear power plants and operate all day, unlike wind and solar energy.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo engineer Kaihang Shi specializes in using artificial intelligence, molecular simulation and other approaches to create nanomaterials for energy and sustainability ...