Rant #1,986: Fatberger In Paradise

How was your Rosh Hashanah?

Mine was fine, and I showed my worthiness to God by using it as a service day for my family.

I took on one project after another, without any stoppage, and I got everything up to snuff.

This included everything from my mother's computer, to my son's new Nintendo Switch (yes, we finally got it!), to my wife's flash drive, all things which weren't working properly.

No, I did not go to shul, but I did the next best thing, which was showing God that I am worthy, and that I should be granted another year to be even better, to improve myself, to be a good human being.

And I hope that God recognizes that.

Two of my brother-in-laws, and my mother, have had health issues lately, and they have all turned out just fine, so yes, God is good.

Now, on to other matters ...

You remember last Friday when I told you about the garbage-created fatberg that invaded London sewers? The thing was several football fields long, was made up of discarded diapers and wipes and other garbage, and it was clogging up those sewers to the point that London officials projected it would take weeks to rid its underlings of this thing.

Well, in the interim, a couple of interesting things have happened regarding this ball of congealsion.

First, a museum wanted at least some of it preserved, so that it could show it off to its visitors what happens when people throw the wrong things down the toilet.

Second, and most important, London officials now know what they are going to do when they finally extricate this mess from their sewer system: the 130-ton behemoth is going to be turned into 10,000 liters of biodiesel fuel.

Engineers continue to work to remove this gelatinous ball of waste from the sewer, and Thames Water recently announced that when they finally get the job done in October, they will send this mass to a specialist plant where elements of the goop will be turned into green diesel fuel, with Argent Energy handling this massive project.

A crew of eight is working seven days a week to remove the mass, using jet hoses to shoot water at it at such force that it breaks up, and is able to be sucked into tankers. Twenty to 30 tons of the fatberg is removed per each nine hour shift.

Evidently, this is not the first time that a fatberg has blocked the London sewers, and Thames Water has warned the public that "the sewers are not an abyss for household rubbish."

The amount of biodiesel fuel that such a fatberg could produce has been estimated as being enough to power 350 of London't double-decker buses for a day.

So, this story, although not a fairy tale by any stretch of the imagination, will have a happy ending after all.

Speak to you again on Monday. Have a nice weekend.