U.S. Department of Labor Announces US $500M For Green Job Training

What a breath of fresh air that this administration gets the connection between renewable energy and national security for the country, the people and the world.

I disagree Luke. From my point of view, Americans would be simply trading one foreign natural resource for another. All be it a cleaner one but thats not the point you made is it?
As for the people on the rest of planet Earth, "the world" as you put it... Think about it this way. There is an estimated 6.8 billion people and counting, on the planet Earth. On average if each person has one bowel movement per day and, on average the bowel movement weighs 1/4 of a pound, that equals up to 850,000 tons of fecal matter per day.
Or the equvialent of 21,250 fully loaded 18 wheelers, per day.
If we could empty out the Great Lakes, it would only take a month to fill them back up again. Now you know where I think "the world" is going.
Bio digesters of course! They do it with hog farms. Why not people? The world is after all just one big sausage factory, right?
Speaking of sausage. We all know who Chef Boy R Dee is right? Well, why don't we know who the guy, or gal was that had the brilliant idea of, grinding up dead pigs, stuffing that into its intestines, hanging it up somewhere cool and dry until it grew mold, then cleaning the mold off and frying it up in a cast iron pan? I ask you, who was that person? They were a genius!
Oh! Lets don't forget about the cheese bisquit with sausage and egg. You know what I am talking about. The ones that, when you raise it up to take a bite, the grease from the cheese runs down and drips off your elbow! Oh man! Chase that down with a cold Miller beer and its like heaven.
Don't forget the TP.

Thomas, you are really full of it,

fall into that bio-digester and you can double the output!

Add the blather you listen to coming out of talk radio that does your thinking for you and maybe your idea could really ad a % or two to our energy needs.

Huh? Bio-digesters are a renewable energy resource, so they will get funding. There will always be poop, so there will always be methane production capability.

The bigger war is animal waste. in 1997, 1 billion tons (2 trillion pounds) of animal waste were created just in america alone. most of this just sits in "waste lagoons" out in the open air on farms. So, im sure we will see biocapture at sewage treatment plants in the future making things more efficient, but for now animal waste is the bigger issue.