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Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 29, 2007 16:22:49 GMT -5

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I wonder what the smell well be like?

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By Network Indiana on Monday, May 28th, 2007

(FRANKFORT) - Clinton County officials hope to break ground this fall on a project to turn waste into energy.

The Quadra Initiative includes an industrial bio-refinery and a hog waste digester.

Shan Sheridan is the assistant director of the Clinton County Chamber of Commerce. He says the idea for the digester came after talking with hog producers about uses for their by-products.

Sheridan says the digester will power 220 homes and the hog farms. He says the industrial bio-refinery will take food waste from businesses, such as Frito Lay and Archer Daniels Midland.

Both could start operating as early as next spring.

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Old Ironsights Major Contributor I'm not Jesus. Stop punishing me for other people's sins! Posts: 3,604	Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 29, 2007 16:34:59 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Old Ironsights on May 29, 2007 16:34:59 GMT -5 If they run it right, none at all, because the smells should burn off. But that is assuming they engineered/run it right.
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DEERTRACKS Major Contributor Posts: 13,689	Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 30, 2007 6:21:12 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DEERTRACKS on May 30, 2007 6:21:12 GMT -5 SuuuuuuuuEeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

parson Major Contributor Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. John 8:12 Posts: 3,268	Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 30, 2007 6:52:44 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by parson on May 30, 2007 6:52:44 GMT -5 If stink = power, there ought to be so megatonage in that concept! parson

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Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 30, 2007 6:59:25 GMT -5

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I think it is a good idea; there are already supplementary power stations that burn trash along the same lines as the poo burner. Why not use all that Junk?

Al Bore should install a bio-burner. He could power his 10,000 square foot home by burning all the B.S. he produces. If Michael Moore would move in, production would double!!

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Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 31, 2007 5:33:40 GMT -5

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Post by kevin1 on May 31, 2007 5:33:40 GMT -5

The digester in the article would actually be producing methane gas from decomposition of the waste, all the trace gasses that would be responsible for odor would most likely either be chemically scrubbed or burned with the methane. There's a lot of chatter lately about tapping the methane produced by the nation's landfills too, it seems that landfills inadvertantly produce a lot of recoverable methane due to their design. Currently it has been vented into the atmosphere and posed a hazard, now they plan to cap the vents and tap off the methane.

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Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 31, 2007 16:38:16 GMT -5

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Waste Management has been turning the methane gas from their landfills into electricity for a few years now. They capture the methane, burn it in big CAT generators, and pump it out on to the grid for consumers to use. We have worked on a couple of these projects.

You are going to see a whole lot of alternative energy projects in the upcoming years. Unfortunately, many of them that you hear about are no more than someone's pipe dream with no money behind it. Local officials score brownie points in their communities by putting announcements like these in the press, unfortunately only a a handful ever happen.

duff Global Moderator Posts: 12,254	Digester To Power Homes And Farms May 31, 2007 20:13:00 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by duff on May 31, 2007 20:13:00 GMT -5 Wind energy is getting alot of play over here near Clinton. White Construction is pushing it pretty hard.

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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on May 29, 2007 16:22:49 GMT -5

Post by Old Ironsights on May 29, 2007 16:34:59 GMT -5

Post by DEERTRACKS on May 30, 2007 6:21:12 GMT -5

Post by parson on May 30, 2007 6:52:44 GMT -5

Post by Sasquatch on May 30, 2007 6:59:25 GMT -5

Post by kevin1 on May 31, 2007 5:33:40 GMT -5

Post by steiny on May 31, 2007 16:38:16 GMT -5

Post by duff on May 31, 2007 20:13:00 GMT -5