Nasdaq listed FuelCell Energy , has just announced a partnership with a sewerage in North-Eastern Germany.

Keep reading, this is actually a lot more interesting than you might think !

FCE stands out as a fuel cell company that early on decided not to rely on hydrogen to fuel its fuel cells, but off the shelf fossil fuels such as natural gas. The hydrogen economy, so they believed, was decades off. So their fuel cells would reform gas, stripping off the hydrogen for power. A kind of fuel cell plus.

Now they're taking it a step further and using the power of human waste.

What they are doing here is to use the gas (particularly methane) which comes from the sewage to power the fuel cell, to power the plant and to sell any excess power back into the grid.

Pretty clever !