Want To Power A Zoo With Biogas? Use Animal Poo
Zoos in Toronto and Detroit are planning to use animal poop – of which they’ve got plenty – to create biogas for powering part of their operations.
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Cow Manure to Ethanol Plant Switches On in California’s San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley has become America’s breadbasket over the past few decades. Products including pistachios, almonds, citrus, stone fruit, cotton, and grapes are grown here and distributed all over the United States and are exported around the world. Tulare County, about a three-hour drive north of Los Angeles, recently … [continued]
Harvest Power Rebuilds Topsoil And Produces Energy With The Process
The people from Harvest Power believe solutions to our planet’s energy and pollution problems must be addressed first at a grass roots level, “where people and organizations can work together in a climate of mutual responsibility and trust.” This company, founded in 2009, and with operations now spread through the … [continued]
The Only Grid-Independent Village In The World?
A little village in Germany, Feldheim, claims to be the only 100% grid-independent village in the world. It is a rural community that switched to renewables for financial reasons, but is now visited by thousands and thousands of people. The tour guide who showed us around noted that his most interesting … [continued]
World’s Largest Biogas Project Stakes $80 Million On 88 Hog Manure Lagoons
Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Foods launch an $80 million project to capture hundreds of millions of cubic feet of biogas from hog manure
Big Livestock Biogas Blowout Blows Up, Up, And Away: 11,000 New Biogas Systems Targeted
The new Biogas Opportunities Roadmap lays out a plan for putting 11,000 more livestock biogas systems into the US renewable energy landscape.
ACT Expo / NGV Conference Summarized | Driving With Gas
At this conference I learned more about natural gas than I ever thought I’d want to know. The morning of day 2 began with a presentation by ExxonMobil on the rosy future of the fossil fuel industry. It was like watching a stork with his head in the sand trying to tell you that the sand is where it’s at. Only that stork is representing a multi-billion dollar publicly-held company. Which happens to have given a presentation that makes it seem as if they think that fossil fuels are still all that matters. And will be for the foreseeable future. He presented slides from this forecast.
Cogeneration Goes Global
by Chadwick Wasilenkoff Sometimes what’s old becomes new again and “cogeneration,” which is over 130 years old, is gathering momentum across the world. “Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source, such as natural gas, biomass, … [continued]
Souped Up Biogas System Turns Brewery Into Green Powerhouse
The Bear Republic Brewing Company in Cloverdale, California is the first brewery to sign onto a new brewery waste-to-biogas system that has some A-list credentials to its credit. The system, called EcoVolt, is the creation of Cambrian Innovation, an MIT spinoff created in 2006 to commercialize a new class of … [continued]
Giant Gleaming Eggs Will Help Solve Urban Water, Energy And Waste Problems
Not too long ago, cities could be labeled strictly as takers: taking in food, water, energy and other resources, while dumping out mountains of garbage and oceans of polluted wastewater. But take a look at the gigantic egg-shaped structures that dominate New York City’s Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant, and … [continued]
