Unsold Beer From Australia‘s Lockdown Is Making Renewable Energy – And in Record Amounts

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When Australia’s bars and restaurants closed down in March because of COVID-19, huge stores of beer went stale. Those ales haven’t gone to waste though. They’re being turned into renewable energy–enough to power 1,200 homes in a month.

Outside Adelaide in South Australia, almost 40,000 gallons of expired beer has been donated every week to a local water treatment plant. That beer is converted into biogas, which then gets used as electricity to power the plant.

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Unsold Beer From Australia‘s Lockdown Is Making Renewable Energy – And in Record Amounts