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Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 1, 2014, 1:12 am
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Biogas from biomass: More efficient poopless ;D method
discovered!
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 30, 2015, 9:27 pm
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[center]It's not electric, but this micro-turbine powered truck
is VERY efficient and it uses ZERO oil for lubrication! Methane
harvested natural gas from animal poop or soil decomposition
could power it Renewably! ;D[/center]
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 17, 2016, 6:14 pm
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[center]Agelbert NOTE: GREAT NEWS about RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS
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another reason why we do not need that non-renewable fracked
"natural" gas . ;D[/center]
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Posted: 9:47 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016
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Colorado town is first in the US to switch to renewable
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By Ethan Weston
Video (at link)
transcript provided by Newsy.com
The city of Grand Junction, Colorado, is turning its raw human
waste into a type of renewable natural gas called biomethane,
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according to The Guardian.
It's the first city in the United States to do this, according
to NPR.
The gas is produced as organic matter and breaks down into raw
biogas. It's then refined and can be used in any system
compatible with natural gas.
The city plans to use the gas to run about 40 vehicles in its
fleet.
The thing about human waste is it's always going to be
available, which makes converting it into a usable form a pretty
smart move. And the gas produced is better for the environment.
Renewable natural gas that's burned as fuel becomes 21 times
less potent than if the methane had been released directly into
the air
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/>according to the American Gas Association, a consortium of 200
energy companies.
A utility engineer for Grand Junction told The Guardian that the
city
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> "may be reducing greenhouse gases by as much as 60 to 80
percent."
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And biomethane doesn't just come from human waste, according to
the Department of Energy. It can be captured from landfills,
according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Also, livestock waste, according to The Wall Street Journal.
These are two of the top producers of methane in the United
States.
As for the cost, a manager at the treatment plant told NPR the
savings could be in the "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
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/> And the city expects the project to pay for itself in about
seven to nine years.
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies found that
energy produced by wastewater treatment plants could meet up to
12 percent of the national electricity needs alone. :o ;D So
maybe Grand Junction is just ahead of the curve. (Video via Doug
Von Gausig)
This video includes images from Getty Images, Robert Basic / CC
BY SA 2.0, KOMUnews / CC BY 2.0 and Adam Moss / CC BY SA 2.0.
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 26, 2016, 2:00 pm
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>
> I do think biomass will be a big part of our energy future, if
there is an energy future.
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Pig Poop Powers North Carolina Farm
Scaling up waste-to-energy technology could transform the hog
farming industry.
By Wendee Nicole|Friday, February 21, 2014
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Pig Poo - Landline - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
www.abc.net.au/.../s4415031.htm
Mar 11, 2016 - Seven farms are now earning carbon credits by
capturing methane gas for the Government's Emissions Reduction
Fund, but many more are ...
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Farmers in Australia's intensive
livestock industries are increasingly seeing manure as a source
of income rather than a cost and pork producers have been
leading the way in converting poo into profit. Seven farms are
now earning carbon credits by capturing methane gas for the
Government's Emissions Reduction Fund, but many more are
converting biogas into energy. Some of the newest research is
even looking at how manure could replace synthetic fertilisers,
and surprisingly, be converted into stockfeed. Sean Murphy with
this report.
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>
> I do think biomass will be a big part of our energy future, if
there is an energy future.
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Pig Poop Powers North Carolina Farm
Scaling up waste-to-energy technology could transform the hog
farming industry.
By Wendee Nicole|Friday, February 21, 2014
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Pig Poo - Landline - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
www.abc.net.au/.../s4415031.htm
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Mar 11, 2016 - Seven farms are now earning carbon credits by
capturing methane gas for the Government's Emissions Reduction
Fund, but many more are ...
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Farmers in Australia's intensive
livestock industries are increasingly seeing manure as a source
of income rather than a cost and pork producers have been
leading the way in converting poo into profit. Seven farms are
now earning carbon credits by capturing methane gas for the
Government's Emissions Reduction Fund, but many more are
converting biogas into energy. Some of the newest research is
even looking at how manure could replace synthetic fertilisers,
and surprisingly, be converted into stockfeed. Sean Murphy with
this report.
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CH4, otherwise known as methane, can be obtained from animal
feces Methane Harvesters without ANY flaring or ANY aquifer
polluting side effects that are [I] sine qua non [/I] to
Fracking. Fracked CH4 gas is NOT "natural" gas. Methane
harvester CH4 IS RENEWABLE ENERGY, POLLUTION FREE, NATURAL GAS.
The ERoEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) of CH4 from Methane
Harvesters is FAR MORE than that of CH4 from Fracking.
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 26, 2016, 2:28 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Nature provides an economic Blessing. Homo saps
think its a curse.
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> Holy Bats, Batman!
>
> RE
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> Batsh*t crazy! Swarm of 100,000 bats invades Australian town
(VIDEO)
> Published time: 25 May, 2016 18:00
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>
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> An Australian coastal town is nearing a state of emergency,
but the cause isn't an earthquake or flooding. Instead, it's a
natural disaster of another kind – 100,000 bats have
embarked on the community, drastically outnumbering its human
residents.
>
> The bats arrived in Batemans Bay, located to the south of
Sydney, with a bang – or, rather, with an odor and a
terrible screeching noise that's driving the town's 11,000
residents insane.
>
>
> "I can't open the windows, I can't use the clotheslines…
I can't study because the noise just goes constantly. I can't
concentrate. It's not fun. The bats came and they are just out
of control. We just can't do anything because of them," local
resident Danielle Smith told Sky News Australia.
>
> But it's not just ordinary locals expressing concern about the
town's most unwanted inhabitants. New South Wales Environment
Minister Mark Speakman said the circumstances “really
almost amount to a state of emergency,” the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
>
> "We've had many residents complain, they feel they're
prisoners in their own homes, they can't go out, they have to
have air conditioning on the whole time, windows closed,”
he added.
>
> Speakman went on to note that the government believes the
number of bats from this particular species – known as
grey-headed flying foxes – represents about one-quarter to
one-fifth of the entire national population.
> Read more
> Reuters/Sukree Sukplang Villain or hero? Bats may be key to
curing Ebola, scientists say
>
> But despite being a huge nuisance, local authorities are
completely banned from using lethal methods on the bat species
because they have been declared vulnerable. Animal rights
activists are also keeping a close eye on the situation, calling
for patience among locals.
>
> In an effort to deal with the problem morally and ethically,
the New South Wales government has now committed AUS$2.5 million
(US$1.8 million) towards a remedy.
>
> "The current method that seems to be the one that's working
the most...is extremely loud industrial noise combined with
smoke and combined with bright lights in an effort to make the
area where the flying foxes roost to be as uncomfortable as
possible," said Lindsay Brown, the mayor of Eurobodalla Shire
Council, which administers Batemans Bay.
>
> For now, residents of the tiny Australian town hope Brown's
optimism isn't misplaced, and await their fate in a community
where flying foes seem undeterred by any efforts to rid them of
their adopted home.
>
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This reflects the typical Homo sap WRONG reaction to a potential
guano goldmine.
Since the 19th century guano has been the gold standard of
fertilizers.
You can make a LOT of money from gathering and selling a ready
source of Guano.
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 27, 2016, 4:23 pm
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>
> I took a tour of one of our three poo-poo treatment plants a
couple of years ago. Settled out product was conveyed to one of
five methane digesters which are huge concrete tanks several
stories tall. Methane is produced for a few weeks and then the
residue is trucked to eastern Washington for use as fertilizer.
It makes wheat grow very well.
>
> On any given day the methane is sold to the gas company or it
is burned to generate electricity and sold to the electric
company to offset the plant electric bill. The methane
extracted is only enough to provide one fifth of the power the
plant actually uses.
>
> This plant receives its raw material from a mixed flow of
storm drain and sewage waters. The area served does not have a
separate storm drain system though there are some street drains
with fish painted next to them that claim to drain directly into
Lake Washington. The relevant fact is that product to produce
methane arrives quite dilute. This may explain some of the poor
efficiency.
>
> I am going to look into how much methane is produced by a
single pig's poop on an annual basis but don't let that stop
anyone from posting what they know about the process first.
>
> I do know an elephant produces enough methane to keep a range
burner on because they process their fodder very inefficiently.
They are not ruminants. Elephant poop is apparently important
to distribute nutrients in their local environment and because
they don't get all the energy they could from their feed
elephants are consequently always full of shit. The Republican
mascot is well chosen.
>
> My point is that, like the blood of patriots, the waste
product of methane digestion is useful as fertilizer.
>
> But how many therms can a pig toot?
>
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The problem here is the generally accepted notion of "carrying
capacity" that is riddled with false assumptions on the nature
of energy transfer mechanisms in autotrophs (photosynthetic
sunlight eaters).
From the simplistic application of Hess's Law to the cherry
picking of the fossil fuel funded Charles Halls of this world,
we get an amazing array of studious peer reviewed bullshit about
"carrying capacity", caloric intake requirements and required
nutrients.
The fact is, K-Dog, that nitrogen fixation and other plant
health and growth (NOT the same thing!) processes are complex.
The thermodynamics of soil microbes is not well understood
because off their enzyme mediated energy transfer systems.
The reductionist and moronic 20th century Big Ag assumptions
that all you needed to grow a healthy crop are phosphates,
potassium and nitrogen are based on FALSE assumptions about
autotroph energy (AND HEALTH) requirements.
NOBODY has quantified ERoEI in soil microbes, of which there are
several MILLION per cubic INCH (including thousands of DIFFERENT
SPECIES). When they do, we can begin to understand carrying
capacity. Until then, assumptions about energy from fertilizer
are not based on the important, and sine qua non, thermodynamic
mechanisms of the soil microbes.
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 6, 2016, 12:07 am
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August 5, 2016
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[center]A Methane Harvester
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in Germany[/center]
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150 new biogas plants with a joint capacity of 23 megawatt were
installed in 2015, the German Biogas Association (Fachverband
Biogas)
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Some 130 of them were small facilities running on liquid manure,
others included biomethan and waste fermentation installations.
2015 marked the least addition to the German biomass-power
capacity since 2000 :(, the association said.
Twenty plants were retired in 2015, leaving a total installed
capacity of 4,018 megawatt that can supply eight million
households. With the 2016/2017 reform of the Renewable Energy
Act, the sector was regarding the future more promising
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/>a press release said.
The German Biogas Association represents primarily operators and
manufacturers of biogas plants in Germany. It has 4700 members.
It lobbies for the increased use of biogas technologies as the
only renewable energy that can be switched on and off when
needed
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Acronym: Fachverband Biogas
Website: www.biogas.org
Email: info@biogas.org
Press Contact Andrea Horbelt
+49 816 198 4663
andrea.horbelt@biogas.org
Sandra Rostek
+49 30 275 817 90
sandra.rostek@biogas.org
Clean Energy Wire CLEW
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T: + 49 30 700 1435 212
info@cleanenergywire.org
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Re: Biogas from fermented BIomass
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 9, 2017, 1:12 pm
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[center]More to biofuels than CO2 reduction
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Failure to account for non-fuel related benefits from biofuel
production leads to an underestimation of the greenhouse gas
(GHG) emission reduction potential for biofuels when replacing
fossil fuels due to the many valuable by-products and/or
co-produced utilities with high fossil replacement potential.
With the current Swedish biofuel production portfolio,
consideration of non-fuel related benefits could lead to 50
percent greater GHG emission savings, a recently concluded
project finds.
In 2014, the Swedish Energy Agency reported a greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions reduction of 1.95 million tonnes of carbon
dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) due to the replacement of fossil
fuels with biofuels. However, a narrow focus on CO2 fails to
capture the additional benefits biofuel production may have
according to a recently concluded Swedish research project.
Over 16 percent of all fuel used on Swedish roads during the
first half of 2016 were renewable.
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[center]GHG reduction benefits of biofuel production
underestimated according to a new study.[/center]
Studies often indicate that agricultural and biomass production
systems have the potential to provide considerable
socio-economic benefits, but that the level of detail and
clarity regarding benefits provided by expanded biomass
production and biofuel process industries are insufficient.
Furthermore, the significant focus directed toward investigating
the life cycle impacts and negative socio-economic effects of
biofuel production tend to exclude, miss, or ignore additional
benefits from the biofuel industry accrued in both environmental
and socio-economic spheres.
This was the starting point for a recently completed project
within the Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable Transportation
Fuels (f3) and Swedish Energy Agency collaborative research
programme Renewable transportation fuels and systems (Förnybara
drivmedel och system).
Factoring non-fuel GHG emission benefits
Project leader Michael Martin from IVL Swedish Environmental
Research Institute has worked together with participants from f3
partners Bio4Energy/Luleå University of Technology and Lund
University to study the additional socio-economic benefits that
also come from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels.
The project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from
Swedish biofuel production, has quantified and analyzed
environmental benefits, and reviewed and documented
socio-economic benefits of biofuel production in Sweden.
The results from the environmental analysis provide evidence
that failure to account for non-fuel related benefits from
biofuel production leads to an underestimation of the potential
for biofuels to contribute to GHG emission reductions when
replacing fossil fuels due to the many valuable by-products
and/or co-produced utilities with high fossil replacement
potential.
Prime examples of such being by-products from grain-based
ethanol production, digestate from biogas production, and
utility integration of lignocellulosic fuel production such as
fuels derived from biomass gasification.
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[center]Göteborg Energi’s Gothenburg Biomass Gasification
Project (GoBiGas) is the world’s largest woody biomass
gasification demonstration project.[/center]
With the current Swedish biofuel production portfolio,
consideration of non-fuel related benefits could lead to 50
percent greater GHG emission savings, compared to when only
considering the replaced fossil fuels. In the considered future
fuel production mix scenarios the corresponding number could
almost reach 90 percent, due to significantly increasing shares
of biogas and lignocellulosic biofuels.
The results from the project have been submitted in two
scientific articles that are to be published. An additional
supporting report that elaborates on the socio-economic benefits
through a screening and review of job creation and assessment
methods for other benefits is also under way. In the meanwhile,
an extended summary report is available.
Reference:
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