In case anyone is wondering if this is legit the answer is yes, and no. Which makes it perfect bait for retard redditors.
Biogas is made by collecting methane from compost. Which can then be used to run a gas stove or a generator. However the system is bulky and expensive.
The question you should ask is "What's the benefit of doing this instead of just composting normally and using wood to run a steam generator and cook?" The answer is that there really isn't one other than getting retards to give you money for a "green" system except maybe somewhere you don't have access to wood, like if you were living in Waterworld.
If you are a large scale animal farmer in europe spending the million is probably worth it as the gas is expensive as fuck and you don't have all that much freedom in what you do with manure
Potentially, but probably not. Storing uncompressed gas is massively space inefficient. So you would need to burn it off quickly or compress and store it. Now you have an explosion risk. Composting works better in the summer than in winter, so you probably aren't using it for heating. Farm machinery like tractors work on diesel fuel and can't realistically be converted to use compressed gas or electricity. There are dozens of other small things we're both probably not thinking of. You have to add massive amounts of time, infrastructure, repairs, fuel use and other issues rather than just buy bulk fertilizer and diesel fuel which are actually quite cheap and easy to use and store..
Also the amount of usable gas you get isn't that much. Sufficient to cook some eggs for and run a generator for 5 mins for a gay youtube, but not enough to actually heat you home or charge your electric car. Just to run the generator 24/7 he'd need around 500 chickens and a system x5 the size of the one he was using.
it's anaerobic fermentation installation that start at half a million USD that when you have 500 cows and a large scale setup that run 100Kw generators the small ones only drive 10Kw generators.
You can do run some machines with 100kw of continuous power
I think you can run a bit of a farm with 10Kw if you don't have everything running at the same time.
I know dairy farmers that use a methane powerplant for their cow shit. I'm sure it's worth it when you have tens of thousands of cows. The remaining crap is then used to fertilize crops to feed the cows next year, and the cycle continues. It's a really green process unlike what all the libtards claim who are afraid of cow farts. Agreed though, small scale seems like it wouldn't pan out.
In case anyone is wondering if this is legit the answer is yes, and no. Which makes it perfect bait for retard redditors.
Biogas is made by collecting methane from compost. Which can then be used to run a gas stove or a generator. However the system is bulky and expensive.
The question you should ask is "What's the benefit of doing this instead of just composting normally and using wood to run a steam generator and cook?" The answer is that there really isn't one other than getting retards to give you money for a "green" system except maybe somewhere you don't have access to wood, like if you were living in Waterworld.
If you are a large scale animal farmer in europe spending the million is probably worth it as the gas is expensive as fuck and you don't have all that much freedom in what you do with manure
Potentially, but probably not. Storing uncompressed gas is massively space inefficient. So you would need to burn it off quickly or compress and store it. Now you have an explosion risk. Composting works better in the summer than in winter, so you probably aren't using it for heating. Farm machinery like tractors work on diesel fuel and can't realistically be converted to use compressed gas or electricity. There are dozens of other small things we're both probably not thinking of. You have to add massive amounts of time, infrastructure, repairs, fuel use and other issues rather than just buy bulk fertilizer and diesel fuel which are actually quite cheap and easy to use and store..
Also the amount of usable gas you get isn't that much. Sufficient to cook some eggs for and run a generator for 5 mins for a gay youtube, but not enough to actually heat you home or charge your electric car. Just to run the generator 24/7 he'd need around 500 chickens and a system x5 the size of the one he was using.
it's anaerobic fermentation installation that start at half a million USD that when you have 500 cows and a large scale setup that run 100Kw generators the small ones only drive 10Kw generators.
You can do run some machines with 100kw of continuous power I think you can run a bit of a farm with 10Kw if you don't have everything running at the same time.
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it's not going to replace anything, but at today's energy prices especially here in europe it's a nice source of extra revenue
I know dairy farmers that use a methane powerplant for their cow shit. I'm sure it's worth it when you have tens of thousands of cows. The remaining crap is then used to fertilize crops to feed the cows next year, and the cycle continues. It's a really green process unlike what all the libtards claim who are afraid of cow farts. Agreed though, small scale seems like it wouldn't pan out.
This is the same system they used in mad max beyond thunderdome. Expect they used pigs in that.