Methane from manure goes mainline (well, via a pipeline)

[JohnWxy]

http://www.wdexpo.org/?cat=44

September 13, 2006
Manure Dollars

Intrepid Technology and Resources, Inc., an Idaho-based renewable alternate energy company, is turning dairy cow manure into natural gas.

Thanks to a partnership with Utah State University, ITR is the first company to produce pipeline-quality methane from cow manure. ITR is expanding its operations, and will now produce natural gas from 100 percent of the manure from 6,500 cows. Previously, the company was only utilizing about 30 percent of their clients’ waste. All of the gas will be put into a pipeline and sold to Intermountain Gas Company, according to ITR Vice President Brad Frazee.

The expansion will include an additional eight digester tanks and will produce enough gas to provide gas energy to 5,000 homes and any dairy with 2,000 or more cows could produce enough gas to make such a project viable.

[tocqueville]

1. with all the manure produced by the WH, the US might become a gas exporter

[JohnWxy]

2. I think that's intended for consumption by millions of dim-witted voters.

..wish it were not true, but the Republicans continue being very successful feeding Bull-shit to the American voter. IT's delivered by the MainStream Corporate media, "Here, want some more? Here's Katy Couric with a big steaming bucketful for you!"

[silverweb]

3. Excellent news!

This is the kind of thing we need to see much, much more of.

I wish someone would figure out a way to trap and use the methane release as the permafrost melts in the great _Siberian peat bogs_, though. They really are a huge cause for concern.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. That's unlikely

Those bogs are huge. And they are found all across the tundra, not just in Siberia, although Siberia has the lion's share of them. I don't think there would be a practical way to capture the methane released over such a large area.

The bogs have been activated by global warming, which is much stronger in the Arctic. And that's why I don't think we can do much about it now. Humans aren't in control of the process; we "merely" kicked it off. The avalanche has begun; it's too late for the pebbles to vote.

--p!

[silverweb]

5. I know.

But I can't stop hoping....

:(