Biogas

This evening we visited a bio-methane plant north of Bellingham. Basically cow crap and other waste products turned into methane gas through a rather impressive array of tanks, pipes, noise and a rather large genset.

This small facility generated enough electricity for hundreds of houses and potentially could be a revolutionary way to produce electricity, fuel vehicles and generate heat. Imagine that biogas will be created from all the crap that we sent to landfills. And animal and plant waste. And pretty much any other organic waste. Surprisingly enough, cow manure is one of the less efficient feedstocks for biogas generation. But unfortunately there is so much animal waste, so finding a use to neutralize this is tremendous. And turning it into energy is even more tremendous.

That's all for tonight. More exciting things are around the corner once the weather breaks.