84. From 500 tonnes of cow poop a day comes biogas & ethanol

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  • This is the amazing story of a farm and feedlot adding a biodigester and an ethanol plant! Combine these elements and you've got an integrated bio-refinery where each business feeds the other in a virtuous cycle. Located near Vegreville, Alberta Green Energy Futures profiles Growing Power Hairy Hill and its unique cow poop based business. www.greenenergyfutures.ca/epis...

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  • @davidoutdoors74
    @davidoutdoors74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Loves These biogas videos. I created my own biogas right at home a small biogas i built very cheap. i actual run a two small motors with the biogas .

  • @rommelsobremisana2690
    @rommelsobremisana2690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Sustainable Agriculture and Truly amazing technology.

  • @MistressOP
    @MistressOP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    mining that corn subsidy system.

  • @harshj3255
    @harshj3255 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great content, apppreciate you to please enable captions to understand words accent clearly.

  • @yaw1001
    @yaw1001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow!
    I will like to replicate this in my country Ghana where sewage waste management companies still secretly dump sewage into the sea.
    certainly, my futuristic minded president, William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will definitely welcome the multiplication of the worthy project in west Africa Ghana.

  • @wazza33racer
    @wazza33racer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Solving waste problem and generating energy from bio waste them, is always a win win. Corn ethanol on the other hand is plain stupid. If your going to make ethanol, use switch grass or some other kind of grass from poor production, non fertilizer land systems. Turning good food into fuel is ridiculous. Bio-gas liquifies very well, and is a good replacement for gasoline, converting spark ignition vehicles to Bio-LNG is viable and sensible.

  • @busog97641
    @busog97641 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just want to thank you for all of the times that I have made comments about your videos and you have addressed them, in a positive way.
    I do like this video format especially the new intro, except for the excerpted bit that is already in the segment that is placed at the very beginning of the video.

    • @tojomathew4730
      @tojomathew4730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How ethanol is extract from bio mass?

    • @tojomathew4730
      @tojomathew4730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      tojotmathew@gmail.com

  • @pavelcobas7311
    @pavelcobas7311 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    i can't wait to try it

  • @be.ndover
    @be.ndover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    got to put the numbers in the description how many tons of poop how much power how much compost how much ethanol

  • @be.ndover
    @be.ndover 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    raging pro oil nut (you wouldn't hav any of this with oil) but the tractors are still running on diesel how you going to get to work there?

  • @oyajitheiii2613
    @oyajitheiii2613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:18 all hail the council of fresh beef

  • @Temawelase
    @Temawelase ปีที่แล้ว

    This is trully amazing ,and I would like to learn more as am a farmer

    • @greenenergyfutures
      @greenenergyfutures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Lorraine, we love this idea as well. This particular project may or may not be still operating. However we have covered numerous smaller scale stories over the years that really highlight the benefits of this to farmers and the environment. Here is one of our favourites www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/31-biogas-closing-loop-cow-poop The trouble is biogas isn't the most economical way to produce electricity. But we think it's more than economic if we factor in the many benefits which include: new consistent income for farmers, radicle reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from spreading manure, the ability to still spread the digestive and get the same benefits on the farm without the GHGs, reduced odors, and reduced runoff pollution.

  • @kanti12us
    @kanti12us 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is the latest with this project?

  • @infocat13
    @infocat13 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    what becomes of the plastic bags in the municipal waste stream ?

    • @benpattinson1
      @benpattinson1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Steven Rappolee at some of the UK equivalent plants, the plastic is shredded and goes for “energy recovery” this is basically incineration in a CHP, combined heat and power plant.

    • @sanyonazyin6063
      @sanyonazyin6063 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well get enough of them and you can either make material for houses like one company in Colombia or make roof tiles like a company in Africa. th-cam.com/video/m7oUk10rKjE/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/Zfr0XHYKBvU/w-d-xo.html

  • @zhp500
    @zhp500 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Talk about a money loosing/energy wasting operation. The price of diesel, and the cost of turning the corn into ethanol. Only in Canada could it be glossed over so bad to make it look positive. If this is still in operation it is only because it is highly subsidized.

    • @timbaxter681
      @timbaxter681 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +zhp500 It is not subsidized yet, but it will be soon! $30/metric tonne of CO2 was the last figure I heard. Clean energy cost more then dirty energy :/

    • @rbfishcs123
      @rbfishcs123 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tell me you don't know anything about biogas technology, without telling me you know what you are talking about. Go.
      Ok you did - great job.

  • @ek9772
    @ek9772 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is a reason that corn silage costs a fourth of corn grain.

  • @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694
    @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 ปีที่แล้ว

    Manure does not contain a lot of energy. It’s food that went and got digested through the animal. The manure is mixed with food waste. That’s what creates the energy. I know they said that briefly, but most of the video gives the impression that the manure is energy-rich.

    • @stevenbrent5764
      @stevenbrent5764 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe a little more research in the manure properties. I'm in the Greeley Colorado area building a gas injection site for biogas. Yes it is food that goes in. But the rich manure that fill the digester with H2S gas is only from manure. I just left two sites in NV that are doing the same biogas projects. Only cow manure is used in these digesters.

    • @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694
      @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevenbrent5764
      Thanks for the advice.
      I’m a senior chemical engineer/ project manager who designs and optimized the performance of these and other facilities for a living.

    • @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694
      @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevenbrent5764
      You probably meant CH4 not H2S gas.
      Manure-only facilities function to reduce the BOD of the manure, but can only produce energy if they are processing large volumes of manure.

  • @sanyonazyin6063
    @sanyonazyin6063 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's great that not all countries in North America are wasting 730 football stadiums of raw material a year, like a certain country located inbetween Canada and Mexico.

  • @gregoryconnor9333
    @gregoryconnor9333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is one more part in the cycle that you are sadly missing.

    • @jovelnom
      @jovelnom 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you don't mind sharing what would be the missing part in this cycle?

  • @DieudonneNgum
    @DieudonneNgum ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a study with a mission related to this please anyone mentor me, please

  • @robertlaing5502
    @robertlaing5502 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Shame it only works when subsidised.

    • @benpattinson1
      @benpattinson1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’ll change if we get taxed on the carbon we produce either individually or the businesses we run.

    • @ek9772
      @ek9772 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethanol production is 40,000,000 liters per year or 10,580,000 gallons of ethanol.
      The price per gallon of ethanol is around $1.40 or $14.8-million per year.
      Add to this whatever amount of electricity they actually feed back into the grid. He said enough electricity for 2,500 homes (@ 04:00). Assuming very efficient homes using 20-kWh per day, this is 18,250,000 kWh per year. At $0.10 per kWh, this is $1,825,000 per year.
      They, also, add a tipping fee for the municipal waste. They receive about 73,000 tons of municipal waste per year.
      It converts the manure into potting soil which can be sold to garden stores, and it saves about $0.015 per pound for corn silage.
      Assuming they provide 20% of daily feed as corn silage, this is (20% x 35-pounds x 36,000 x 365 x $0.015) = $1,380,000.
      Together it is about $18,000,000 add $10 (my estimate) per ton of municipal waste or $730,000, and add another $0.01 (my estimate) per pound of dirt sold to garden stores ($0.01 x 365 x 1,000,000 = $3,650,000), and the numbers become even larger.

  • @hasibulhassan572
    @hasibulhassan572 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can i get this technology? I am from Bangladesh,,

    • @owj182
      @owj182 ปีที่แล้ว

      India has this experiment going. Can get info from india youtube

  • @ek9772
    @ek9772 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something is not right with the numbers provided:
    500 tons = 1,000,000 pounds
    At (1:40) any one time there are 36,000 head of cattle in their property.
    1,000,000 / 36,000 = 27.8 pounds of manure per cattle. This is between 25% to 50% of what I would expect.

  • @DublinDapper
    @DublinDapper 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love all of this except the feedlots. Horrific way to raise cattle.

    • @Oakheart
      @Oakheart 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AT least around here they don't get raised in a feed lot. They only go to the feed lots for the last few weeks before slaughter to fatten them up a bit. It's a for pay service. I agree that all grass fed i tastier and better for you.

    • @superstory4u144
      @superstory4u144 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      DublinDapper: Feedlots is made from grain.

    • @MistressOP
      @MistressOP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      replace feedlot with a tick toc pasture dairy system. you will feel better. i really wish they haven't picked a feedlot

  • @tommylikes4511
    @tommylikes4511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing waste

  • @Panda9943mind
    @Panda9943mind 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    FYI feedlots are horrible for the environment

  • @VY-zt3ph
    @VY-zt3ph ปีที่แล้ว

    All these animals are raised for hundreds of days so that they can be eaten for one day. All of the food grains which was wasted into feeding them could have been utilised for producing human food. This would be more greener than this stupid virtuous cycle.

    • @colorwashcarsandguitars
      @colorwashcarsandguitars ปีที่แล้ว

      They eat none eatable food products.

    • @stevenbrent5764
      @stevenbrent5764 ปีที่แล้ว

      VY, don't want to be against human food products but taking grain that was waste and cow poop to make human food products is not very appealing. I work for a company that builds biodigesters for dairy farms none of the cows are eaten but the milk is drunk by all Americans who drinks milk as well as use the power to heat their homes and has the capability of being converted into automobiles engine fuel. No beef here are being eaten, just milked.

    • @VY-zt3ph
      @VY-zt3ph ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevenbrent5764 That's a really a good model. I hope i could visit such a place.

  • @pavelcobas7311
    @pavelcobas7311 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    i can't wait to try it