Wed, 19 Jul 2006

Company turns dairy waste into gas

This isn't a new process, exactly. What's new is the ability to produce "pipeline quality" gas, rather than gas suitable for local burning.

But note the size of the dairy used as a test bed: 4500 cows. That's a lot of shit. It's a factory, not a dairy farm. If this is the only scale that makes production of gas economical, then I'm afraid that the cure would be worse than the disease.

Idaho Falls,Idaho - A small company in southeastern Idaho is attracting big attention for its groundbreaking work with alternative, renewable fuels.

(link) [The Prairie Star]

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On 7/21/2006 18:05:30
Scott Holtzman wrote

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