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Published September 23, 2009, 12:00 AM

Compressed gas


A manager walks across a vinyl tarp that traps methane gas to generate electricity at the Atwater facility in California. A microbiologist in Pennsylvania wants to build a pilot plant that would transform food waste into natural gas to power specially suited vehicles. (Anne Chadwick Williams/Sacramento Bee/MCT)
Read the article: Beans might give you, and your car, gas