If the digester design is good and you have enough cows/hogs, these are probably the most profitable and dependable form of alternative energy out there. Our partnership is putting together such a project together in the Midwest and the numbers are good.
There I was driving down the road when the engine started sputtering and quit. Yup, out of fuel. Fortunately I had my Oklahoma credit card and there was a renewable energy source just standing there, After a bit of a chase and more of a struggle I got the hose inserted in the proper downpipe and started to siphon....
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Hillary and Obama were in a boat going down the river.
The river was extremely rough.
The boat capsized.
Both were lost! :-{ (really ;-})
Who was saved?
AMERICA
I wonder if the evirowhackos know that methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 and that burning methane will produce CO2.
There may be some use for presidential campaign speeches and Al Gore’s bellowings after all!
This is cool, at first glance.
But if everybody does this, will we end up with a serious crop problem because we burned up all the fertilizer?
Are we essentially taking important nutrients out of the soil and burning them off?
Or are they still recoverable after the burning process, with only the carbon being released?
This is a form of solar power. Plants suck C02 out of the air, and give us oxygen. Animals eat the plants, and poop out the carbon, and we burn it, putting it back into the air.
So long as we don’t lose other important soil parts in the process.
I saw a Dirty Jobs over the weekend with a cow farm using something like this, they were energy self-sufficient, and claimed they were the greenest dairy farm on the planet.
I wasn’t paying much attention. While this group says they just suck out the methane, I don’t remember if the other farm burned the actual waste product or not. They claimed the manure was still good for fertilizer — I’m guessing this group’s is if they are simply capturing the methane that would have bled off anyway.
The scam continues.
