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LANL: ‘Garbage To Gas … Using Biodigesters To Create Energy’ Wins 2020 New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge - 8:37 am Los Alamos National Laboratory awards a $4,500 cash prize to the winning students in the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge. Courtesy/LANL LANL News: Student scientists at Monte del Sol Charter School earned a $4,500 cash prize awarded by Los Alamos National Laboratory judges in the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge with their project, “Garbage to Gas: Using Biodigesters to Create Energy”. “The STEM Challenge’s team-based approac...

‘Garbage To Gas: Using Biodigesters To Create Energy’ Wins 2020 New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge Biodigesters use microbes to speed the decay of organic matter (usually food waste) and use the resulting methane-rich biogas as a sustainable energy source for electricity, cooking, and heating. The Monte del Sol team built a biodigester in the school greenhouse. Photo Courtesy LANL Student scientists at Monte del Sol Charter School  earned a $4,500 cash prize awarded by Los Alamos National Laboratory judges in the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge with their project, “Garb...