The company captures the biogas from cow manure and converts it into usable energy.
No renewable is in a better position to cross this bridge first than biogas.
That mix includes both a solar array and a 5-megawatt biogas fuel cell installation.
From which you can make biogas (methane) which can be used to power those fuel cells.
"When you turn the biogas into electricity, it creates heat which we also store, " says Forster.
Instead, unwanted food is donated or sent to anaerobic digestion plants to convert the material into biogas.
The current generation of Bloom boxes use natural gas, ethanol or biogas to run their fuel cells.
His other obsession is renewable energy, for which he's devising a model that combines solar, wind and biogas.
The European Union has a major drive to turn all kinds of waste into energy, particularly from biogas.
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The challenge for the biogas industry will be scaling up in economical ways.
Currently, in the U.S., the economics for generating electricity from biogas are dismal.
Eighty-one Sulabh toilets linked to biogas plants are generating energy and fertilizer, and some systems have health care facilities.
It sounds great but I question the usual scale-up and engineering required to inaugurate a huge infrastructure based on biogas.
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Kitchen scraps and garden material are taken to biogas plants where it is used to generate methane and electricity in turn.
It is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK to feed biogas directly into the national gas grid.
It is also developing an anaerobic digester that acts like a giant cow stomach, creating biogas from solid food and plant waste.
Vastly underutilized, biogas is essentially natural gas that is produced in a matter of millions of seconds rather than millions of years.
Toilet maker TOTO unveiled its "Toilet Bike Neo, " an amazing poo-powered tricycle that runs on biogas that's produced from livestock waste.
We feed them animal waste, and they convert it from manure to digested effluent, eating the carbohydrates and producing biogas that contains methane.
Converting cow manure into methane biogas is said to be environmentally friendly, instead of allowing manure to decompose and create global warming gases.
The method uses biogas, which is produced when waste water sludge is broken down by microbes in a process known as anaerobic digestion.
Elsewhere in China, biogas projects have proven more popular than in Yunnan, where colder temperatures generally require a greenhouse to cover the units.
Installing natural gas means an open door to change to use of renewable biogas either completely or partially at any time -whenever it becomes available.
In an off-grid village in India, for example, biogas from an anaerobic digester could be burned to drive the Stirling engine to generate power.
But with emerging technologies, raw biogas can be stripped of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, bringing it up to the quality level of natural gas.
Kelda Water Services and its sister company Yorkshire Water are supplying the council with the biogas, which is produced at their sewage treatment works in Sheffield.
Now the company is seeking to get back on track and commercialize a power generator with the potential to run either on the sun or biogas.
The chamber is air tight so the biogas let off from the little digesters can be captured and used to power the steam generator that run the stills.
Using gathering infrastructure that is shared across several smaller-scale biogas producers linked via a pipeline network to an upgrading facility, upgrading costs can be defrayed among all producers.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said it was "naturally disappointed" that this innovative project was unable to proceed, but the decision was one for Biogas (Ireland).
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