Thursday, June 21, 2007

From poop to power

An innovative electrical engineer turned local dairy farmer is generating the better part of a Megawatt of power a day from manure.

Novel here but common in their Swiss homeland, the Klaesis' system is one of Ontario's first manure digesters generating electricity to the grid through the net metering program ... and that's after they've turned on two homesteads and their farm buildings.

Their anaerobic digester generates 750 kilowatt hours of electricity daily, enough to power 30 homes. The brothers' hydro bill has shrunk from $2,500 to $30 per month, which is the service fee Hydro One invoices whether electricity is used or not.

".....encountered regulatory roadblocks and wonders why, considering that in Europe thousands of digesters are routinely installed and are looked upon as a sound farm practice."

Manure digesters ... garbage gasification ... more use of wind energy. Maybe those coal plants could have been shut down ....

Yet another failure for Dolt and crew.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speaking of Daltons promises and power, I think the latest was shutting down coal fired plants by 2014. Wasn't the orginal promise 2007 then 2009...

Mike said...

So may lies ... how can one keep track ?

But ya, it was supposed to be 2007.