Generating electricity from manure is a technology that heralds an important promise for rural towns and kampongs in Sabah as it provides communities with an invaluable opportunity to experience real returns to the rural economy , and a big PLUS for the environment.
With the rest of the world trying to reduce their carbon footprints, utilizing such technologies offer a great promise for farmers and relieves highly populated urban centers of their manure management problem.
Methane power-plants are sustainable, economical and practical. It is sustainable because electricity production depend on really… just manure and that can be acquired by the thousands or even million metric of tonnes from the farms and human manure from sewage plants, but dont hold your nose away in disgust just yet. Methane plants exist and the technology is being hotly utilized around the world, proof? Read the below
Chinese power plant uses harmful methane gas for producing electricity (Re-Issue)
February 4th, 2008 - 12:50 pm
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): In a unique initiative, China has started the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant in the Inner Mongolia region, thus using the greenhouse gas methane for generating electricity on a massive scale.
Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
FOR years, the cows at Green Mountain Dairy here produced only milk and manure. But recently they have generated something else: electricity.
The farm is part of a growing alternative energy program that converts the methane gas from cow manure into electricity that is sold to the power utility’s grid.
And why SESB and Tenaga nasional aren’t investing in this technology for Sabah? Well understanding human nature, such facilities wont likely be located in urban centers so by ‘sixth sense’, I would bet that methane powered plants will be located outside of urban areas. And because the process of converting manure-methane -electricity involves burning, these Plants can also manufacture fertilizers and fuel.
It’s a given answer that city-folks wouldn’t want a methane-electricity plant anywhere in the urban centers so methane power-plants can make their presence in rural towns and this provides them a niche, a clear advantage which pulls resources and technical expertise to rural economy rather than development being centralized and limited to urban areas
We realized we could help meet a customer demand for renewables, help solve a manure management problem and make these farmers more financially secure,” said Steve Costello, a spokesman for Central Verm
It provides the rural economy with
- Jobs :which would then allow an exchange of knowledge, skills
- Opens rural economies to the world with the incorporation of green technology
- Reduces carbon footprint produced by agriculture
- A more cost-effective method
- Relieves cost through lesser dependence on paying for non-renewable fuels
- Promotes capital flow from cities to rural towns
- Subsidization of electricity usage
- Additional income from electricity production
- Circulation of knowledge and skills
For cities, and urban areas… methane power plants can solve the headache of waste and sewage management and don’t worry you won’t smell anything even if electricity is wired in from rural towns. As the process involves burning, methane plants can possibly be incorporated with water purifying technology which purifies sewage water into clean water for the city’s self sufficiency .
Like many green technologies, many get a diss-off from gov who prolly cant see the real benefits from incorporating this technology. Eyh but the more energy -efficient Sabah is, the lesser Sabahans need to depend on fossil fuels. Now where would that leave the non-renewable fuels? If theres excess more than we need…we sell them of course.. * Kachings for the national economy*
Further reading
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2/24farmers.html
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/chinese-power-plant-uses-harmful-methane-gas-for-producing-electricity-re-issue_10016139.html
Do Share your thoughts…
With the rest of the world trying to reduce their carbon footprints, utilizing such technologies offer a great promise for farmers and relieves highly populated urban centers of their manure management problem.
Methane power-plants are sustainable, economical and practical. It is sustainable because electricity production depend on really… just manure and that can be acquired by the thousands or even million metric of tonnes from the farms and human manure from sewage plants, but dont hold your nose away in disgust just yet. Methane plants exist and the technology is being hotly utilized around the world, proof? Read the below
Chinese power plant uses harmful methane gas for producing electricity (Re-Issue)
February 4th, 2008 - 12:50 pm
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): In a unique initiative, China has started the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant in the Inner Mongolia region, thus using the greenhouse gas methane for generating electricity on a massive scale.
Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
FOR years, the cows at Green Mountain Dairy here produced only milk and manure. But recently they have generated something else: electricity.
The farm is part of a growing alternative energy program that converts the methane gas from cow manure into electricity that is sold to the power utility’s grid.
And why SESB and Tenaga nasional aren’t investing in this technology for Sabah? Well understanding human nature, such facilities wont likely be located in urban centers so by ‘sixth sense’, I would bet that methane powered plants will be located outside of urban areas. And because the process of converting manure-methane -electricity involves burning, these Plants can also manufacture fertilizers and fuel.
It’s a given answer that city-folks wouldn’t want a methane-electricity plant anywhere in the urban centers so methane power-plants can make their presence in rural towns and this provides them a niche, a clear advantage which pulls resources and technical expertise to rural economy rather than development being centralized and limited to urban areas
We realized we could help meet a customer demand for renewables, help solve a manure management problem and make these farmers more financially secure,” said Steve Costello, a spokesman for Central Verm
It provides the rural economy with
- Jobs :which would then allow an exchange of knowledge, skills
- Opens rural economies to the world with the incorporation of green technology
- Reduces carbon footprint produced by agriculture
- A more cost-effective method
- Relieves cost through lesser dependence on paying for non-renewable fuels
- Promotes capital flow from cities to rural towns
- Subsidization of electricity usage
- Additional income from electricity production
- Circulation of knowledge and skills
For cities, and urban areas… methane power plants can solve the headache of waste and sewage management and don’t worry you won’t smell anything even if electricity is wired in from rural towns. As the process involves burning, methane plants can possibly be incorporated with water purifying technology which purifies sewage water into clean water for the city’s self sufficiency .
Like many green technologies, many get a diss-off from gov who prolly cant see the real benefits from incorporating this technology. Eyh but the more energy -efficient Sabah is, the lesser Sabahans need to depend on fossil fuels. Now where would that leave the non-renewable fuels? If theres excess more than we need…we sell them of course.. * Kachings for the national economy*
Further reading
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2/24farmers.html
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/chinese-power-plant-uses-harmful-methane-gas-for-producing-electricity-re-issue_10016139.html
Do Share your thoughts…
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