chemistry

The Part We Used to Burn

I'\''ve been watching the flare on Biodigester 4 for three years now. It sits at the edge of Plot 12-North, a squat ceramic dome that eats crop residue and kitchen scraps and breathes out two things: a dense compost we spread on the eastern fields, and methane. The compost, I love. The methane, I'\''ve always treated like a problem to manage. We burn most of it. Pipe some to the Cooperative'\''s drying sheds, where it heats the dehydrators that preserve our surplus harvest. A little goes to the