Save the planet - with poo

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Brussels - Using biomass, a type of fuel made of materials such as wood and manure, instead of coal to generate electricity could lower the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and create jobs, a report said on Thursday.

The World Wide Fund for Nature, which wrote the report with the European Biomass Industry Association, said in a statement that production of biomass would create hundreds of thousands of jobs while helping to reduce CO2, which contributes to global warming.

"The report indicated that this could reduce emissions of CO2, the main global warming gas, by about a thousand million tons each year - a figure equivalent to the combined annual emissions of Canada and Italy," the statement said.


http://iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1085665680498B251&set_id=1

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1. It should be part of home land security

for every sewer treatment plant to be able to run...completley removed from the grid.

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2. Biogas: Manure to Methane Generation

http://www.montanagreenpower.com/harvestingcleanenergy/lusk.html
Phil Lusk of PRIME Technologies believes he’s found an environmentally friendly way to produce ethanol, feed cattle and keep South Dakota ranchers in business at the same time.

Working with the newly formed Dakota Value Capture Cooperative, Lusk says PRIME Technologies will build a "closed loop" facility in Sully County, South Dakota, consisting of an ethanol plant capable of producing 20 million gallons of ethanol annually and a climate-controlled feedlot capable of finishing 65,000 head of cattle a year.

Lusk explained the project at the Harvesting Clean Energy Conference October 9-11 in Great Falls.

The plant and feedlot will be connected by a state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion system that will capture odor and manure at the feedlot and convert it into methane, which will be burned at the ethanol plant. In addition, wet distillers grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, will be fed to cattle in the feedlot, thereby eliminating drying and transportation costs. This strategy will enable South Dakota producers and others to feed South Dakota corn and milo to beef cattle and "capture" value that has previously been exported to other states.

The Sully County facility will owned by the DVCC and will be built and managed on behalf of the coop by PRIME Technologies, LLC, which is also located in Pierre. This is the first facility of the kind a recent study conducted by the University of South Dakota said could create more than $500 million in new wealth annually in the state as well as 10,000 new jobs in rural communities. The study, commissioned by the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, said that this economic growth could be achieved by building large feedlots and dairies next to ethanol plants.

The coop board is made up of farmers and ranchers from across the state who want to capture profits lost to out-of-state feeders and processors. Contact Phil Lusk for more information.


Dakota Value Capture Cooperative
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