Power From Cattle Manure- An Alternative Energy Economy
Cattle manure and Alberta ingenuity are combining to produce a fledgling alternative energy economy.Two huge tanks with rounded, mushroom lids loom above the snowdrifts, the first glimpse of Alberta's oddest-looking electricity plant and also its greenest.About one megawatt of power flows out on the wires — enough power to run the next-door feedlot and turn on the lights in 700 homes in Vegreville and Two Hills.
The project starts with new technology invented by their company, Highmark Renewables, to turn cattle manure into biogas, a product similar to natural gas from the ground. Highmark calls it "renewable natural gas" (since there's an endless supply of manure) and with a little cleaning up, it could heat your home.Right now, Highmark burns its biogas to make electricity. The company has developed 40 secret recipes to turn almost any kind of organic waste — slaughterhouse waste, sugar beet waste, municipal sewage — into biogas.
see more
The project starts with new technology invented by their company, Highmark Renewables, to turn cattle manure into biogas, a product similar to natural gas from the ground. Highmark calls it "renewable natural gas" (since there's an endless supply of manure) and with a little cleaning up, it could heat your home.Right now, Highmark burns its biogas to make electricity. The company has developed 40 secret recipes to turn almost any kind of organic waste — slaughterhouse waste, sugar beet waste, municipal sewage — into biogas.
see more
Labels: biogas, electricity, waste
PermaLink - Power From Cattle Manure- An Alternative Energy Economy
