11-17 FB Anaerobic Digester
Funding has been announced for anaerobic digester projects.
The Agriculture Department has just announced that the USDA is funding anaerobic digester projects in eight states to encourage renewable energy production, reduce energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and farm-based pollution. Funding for the biodigesters is provided through USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program, which has created or saved an estimated 13.4 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and reduced almost 14.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s Mike Lally of EnviroTech Systems Inc.: “You take packing house waste from the slaughterhouse waste water, and you convert that by taking the organics out of it by the way of microbes, bugs if you want to call it that, all in less than a 24-hour period is there retention time, and it converts that into energy at the same time so you have an anaerobic digester process to take care of the organic waste in the waste stream and it can be packing house waste stream, swine waste stream in any county that has lagoons, we can take that liquid waste and put it through the digester and convert that into energy. You have a dual process, it eliminates the problem with the liquid waste and then convert it into energy at the same time.
