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Have I mentioned the methane riding my way with a S-S.W. wind? Wasted resources causing it. Wasted methane in its ghosting around recalling the past now decomposed unused .
I likely mentioned the friend sent to look over a cattle feed lot manure digester used to feed generators? That's methane. We can make/do it at home.
But we lack the critical "scrubber" to reduce corrosion.
Waste. Debris. Discard.
Milk in bottles that were reused. Quite the concept...
Folks that knew the pinch of wars and recession and depression were not looking to poor money into rapid waste streams of domestic consumption.
We're not saving the planet. Or repairing it. Not going to happen. Best we can do is prolong it's suffering our constant influence.
Just down the highway a bit on one of my permissions the owner has a manure digester that was 500KW and he applied and got another 250KW increase. Now its fed manure plus a 45ft tanker of cooking oils everyday. The product stays in the digester for 80 days and it perks away suppling energy for the generator(s). This also kills all the pathogens that are in the material.
What is kind of interesting is the by-product from the digester is held in a 1 million gallon tank lagoon, as they only spread on the 1000 acres when the frost is out of the ground. The black contents is sprayed on the fields that they can crop, and to supply seed, and silage for their own needs to feed the 250+ milkers.
On the 70 acre field that sits along the highway as a buffer to the farm he grows alpha. He gets 5/6 harvests off the field every season as it's pretty well pure nitrogen that they spend out in the black slurry. The smell is a vent closer on the vehicle, though by the next day it's a nothing.
There has been times that he has to do a burn off as the levels in the digester builds up and the only way to mitigate the issue is to ignite the methane. The torch is lite and is a interesting sight to see at night as one rarely sees the event.
It's something that I wouldn't want on my field though as one doesn't really know what the slurry contains.