For Thai pig farmer Ong-Arj Suwunnatee, going green was not only good for business and the environment, it came as a welcome relief to his neighbors.
“Back in the old days, people knocked on my door and complained about the smell,” said Ong-Arj, who owns 4,000 pigs in Nakhon Pathom, 55 km west of Bangkok in the heart of Thailand’s hog country.
“Now? They hardly even notice. People around here are happy to show you how to get to my house,” Ong-Arj told Reuters after showing off a biogas plant he designed himself during a tour of his 9.7 hectare enclosed pig farm.
“The smell has gone. The flies have gone and I have more cash in my pocket,” said the 35-year-old father of two.
Thailand has begun to embrace biogas — created from sewage, manure or grass — as a cheap, environmentally friendly way of slashing its reliance on imported fuels.
We probably could run half the East Coast on all the bullshit from Congress and the White House.
That image, is that the Pooled Pork JCD talks about.
Good for the farmer. A methane digester is easy to build. I helped build one for a middle school science fair once. I grew up in rural Kansas so finding manure wasn’t a problem.
Pulled, not pooled.
herein lies the root cause of the problem with respect to the environment
the al gore’s of the world scream and exaggerate and try to freak everybody out
the gw’s of the world want business to be able to make money without any hinderance
what people need to do is exploit environmentally-friendly technologies that make people money — ti’s the only way people will ever clean up the mess they make.
I think methane fuel is a great solution for rural India, in particular. I really don’t know why some of those myriad electrical engineers in India don’t cobble some project together.
Ye gads… they have the same NIMBY crap there, as we do here???
…in the heart of Thailand’s hog country.
Why are people living in the heart of “hog country” complaining about the smell??
I recall seeing on an episode of “Dirty Jobs” a essentially hacked together plant that, utilizing cow manure, processed, streamed and pressed that raw material into little pots for growing plants in and giving them a little one up as they did so.
All the power for the plant and the man’s house was supplied by a simple biogas plant. He payed nothing but hay and grain for the cows, and he reaped absolute gold from nothing other than feces.
That might be the smartest man I’d ever seen, and if I were President he would be my technology advisor, setting up a million such plants everywhere there are farm animals.
Ah, a world run by logic, what a sweet fantasy.
In my county..
20,000,000 tons per year, cow manure…
Friend and I have been preaching to the dairies that they could save 50-100% of all power used IF’ they added methane power generation, for over 10 years…
Friend has all the info and knowledge to build it.. Just needed the backing of the dairies..
They wouldnt do it.
finally someone is building 5 plants in the Valley to use all this material.
“We probably could run half the East Coast on all the bullshit from Congress and the White House. ”
You can get enough from a Scientologist advisor.
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Sounds to me that these dairy plants were run by weasel administrators too obssessed with immediate short term income and cost saving.
The incoming plants, will only MAKE the gas, they wont burn it, or convert it to energy….WHICH means we wont be getting the POWER from it..
They could easily power this WHOLE county with that much manure…
AND that was a 1998 estimate, and it was going UP, per year.
We probably could run half the East Coast on all the bullshit from Congress and the White House.
Uuhh, nope. Common misconception. Political Bullshit is notoriously devoid of any meaningful substance. That usually means there is nothing to degrade into useful products such as fertilizer of bio-gas.
But if that was true, …
11,
are you interested in haveing a balloon ATTACHED to you??
If not Shhhh!