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Many efforts to supplant traditional energy sources have amounted to a lot of talk and millions of dollars in research so far. But one idea is no bull.
A new processing plant in California captures natural gas (methane) from cow manure, Reuters reports.
Water is added to the manure to make a liquid put into a tank the size of five football fields and 33 feet deep. The gas is siphoned off and piped to a PG&E power plant to produce electricity.
Since the methane, which is considered a greenhouse gas, would have been released into the air, the setup is viewed as a double-bonus. But there are limits to the idea’s potential: Not all of the state’s 2 million dairy cows poop close enough to methane pipes for feasible collection, the story states. Could it not be stored and trucked?
April 9th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Robert;
So much time, money, and effort goes to replacing or modifying the energy sources, resources, and alternatives, isn’t it?
When my residence receives industrial energy (electricity, heating, and air conditioning) I consume about 1/3 of produced and fed to my residence industrial energy, which is about average of all residences. 2/3’s goes out the doors, windows, ventings, and through cracks and holes in the building frames and walls. Electricity trickles out of outlets and light sockets continuously, and the circulated air goes out continuously also.
Structural Efficiency of a building, especially the building’s perimeter walls, roof, and floor/foundation, under calm climate conditions leads to excessive waste of purchased industrial energies, and when the structurally Deficient building frames/bodies fail in a hurricane, for example, all of the toxic pollutants, including the industrial energy products in the building get deposited into the surrounding soils, waters, and atmosphere!!
So, my thinking is to upgrade the structural efficiencies of buildings, with Closed-Nets Technologies, so that the building can have a Certified Strucurally Tight Designation, won’t waste as much industrial purchased energies, and won’t fail in hurricanes and other disasters, thus saving money, pollution, and property assets. Want to do a story on a new technology, called Closed-Nets Technologies?