Renew News » digester http://www.renewnews.com A down-to-Earth resource about renewable energy and renewable resources. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:50:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Swedish Cow Train http://www.renewnews.com/2006/06/25/swedish-cow-train/ http://www.renewnews.com/2006/06/25/swedish-cow-train/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:26:34 +0000 Mark http://www.renewnews.com/2006/06/25/swedish-cow-train/ It used to be that people only got methane from dung. That is no longer the case. Check out what those crazy Swedes are doing. Svensk Biogas of Linkoping Sweden has figured out a way to use the whole cow too!

In addition to the dung they can now use chopped up cow parts in their fermenters. I’m working under the assumption that they aren’t throwing prime-cut steaks in there.

More on the cow train from Discover magazine here.

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The next energy source: Barnyard animals

Although not about the people in India, this is a cool article and it expanded my idea of what bio-fuel really is. There are apparently a lot of “digesters” out there that process manure and get methane gas out of it. These digesters have apparently been around in Europe and elsewhere in the world for a while since their energy prices are higher than ours, but it’s starting to catch on here in the USA. Even though there is a high initial cost, this is a nice solution because it solves more than one problem at once. Excess manure, and high energy costs.

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