The UK has no fracking, our natural gas supplies are dwindling and European natural gas prices have increased five-fold - so I hope that you are enjoying fruits from your large investment and that the UK is grateful
I hate these docs that have no narration whatsoever other than some techno crap.. how about some real life explanation of what is actually happening? That would be interesting.. this is just another blurb of mystery 😢
Keep doing that, nice job! It is our future, good to know that somebody is caring about the planet, the environment and about people which want to work ;)
It's good to remember our own existence as we often forget it is, in the context of a starving world....food is our primary survival need. Although we're a bit disconnected from that idea in the west, maybe we should try to keep it in mind when designing new concepts to provide energy which take from food resources....Ecology and economy don't always work together, and here there is a big question mark over how ecologically sound this process is.
"Whole crop rye" as mentioned in the video, is the whole plant. As shown in the video, the rye is chopped by a forage harvester and blown into a forage cart. A combine would be used if it was harvested for grain, but it is clearly not a combine. All of the forage appears to be ensiled, which requires a certain level of starch; as such, the maize, rye, and sugar beet would need to be processed whole. I'm a farmer, the feedstocks looked a lot more like silage than stover.....
There are millions of tons of food waste that can be used for biogas, there's no reason to have dedicated crops for biogas and biomass energy. Every landfill is a massive methane generator and instead of being captured it's just vented into the atmosphere.
Great Video, I would be curious to know if this is scale able down to build a plant that could digest the effluent from a dairy unit, thanks for sharing
Considering there was a drought of C02, the price of NG is high and fertiliser prices are high, what is the most valuable output. Does the farm itself make a profit on its own? What holds the farm back from being even bigger? Are there any unsold waste products?
Very very interesting. Obviously not using slurry and food waste etc means you have far better control over the digestors “diet” and thus more efficient production I assume. Do you think there is a potential market though for “digesting” other farmers slurry (and council water treatment works various effluents perhaps??) and then giving them a proportionate amount of digestate and solid material back? (Asking for a friend👍👍) I’ve always thought this might be an attractive proposition given that digestate is “safer” than raw slurry but since you are plainly experts I’d love to know your thoughts on this.
We are not a waste plant and therefore are not legally allowed to process any waste. The kind of waste you refer to has very little energy and is not commercially viable.
Apsley Farms thanks for that. It’s a very interesting area. Read an article on LinkedIn I think m, about some sort of plant in Toronto where food waste is reprocessed through a digestor hence the question.
When your gov sub runs out after twenty years etc ?wil it make a profit ? But as a farmer myself the more grade 12and 3 is used for adplants the less land for food so less food better price for us proper farmers ,I think when Joe blogs finds out the huge tax payers sub on this me thinks there might be a problem !! And around her the extra tractors 15ton +trailers travelling 20 miles carting maize ,beet ,even carrots near me ,Joe blogs thinks it's going to feed cows and humans ! Plus these plants have out bid the rest of us in rental or extra land etc ,here end of rant hope all goes well !
Will Evans just seen a programme on the tv (forgot the name) but it discussed this way of growing meat in a lab. This method will undoubtedly expand. Don’t get me wrong I’m not supporting it, I’m from a farming family. But if meat production moves to a lab based system and our natural energy resources (non renewable) dwindle, then land may have to be used more for energy production??
Lab meat just a puff of wind reminds me of the smash potatoes of the seventies. Tasted terrible ,those TV save the world programmes load of nonsense!!don't believe it , mixed good olld fashioned farming is the way to go ,but that requires bloody hard work and mod farmer can't get off his tractor @@benpattinson1
To make such a public statement you have made extensive calculations? We do on a quarterly basis. I would really like to see those workings of yours. We are often carbon negative! We employ sixty people on very good wages. Pay lots of taxes, and contribute to society by getting off our backside. Do you?
It is not possible currently to operate wholesale, base load (24/7) green energy provision without subsidy. We would be very happy to assist any government in formulating the appropriate policy for their country.
Sembrar plantas inútiles pastos y plantas de buen forraje residuos de sembrios residuos de comida aceites vegetales quemados de restaurantes y hacer con eso vio gas
jun jie Never! Thanks to environmentally disabled people we have more pollution. Ethanol was a failure then electric cars failed. Not good ole gasoline/ diesels. Environmentalist need to leave America alone. Their all failures in life.
You are also very modest. I know you worry about russia and china world's economy competition. of course, develop new technology is absolutely not flattered words. In fact, every western developed country created new ideals and new skills to solve with many problems at period of crisis. We need to change traditional opinion: science change lifestyle, that's true.
Hi, I am from Nigeria, I saw your youtube videos on energy solution how much will a plant of 65.5KVA cost me approximately. Thank you waiting for your response soonest.
What you are not telling the public is how much fossil fuel you are using to establish transport feed and then dispose of the raw material o and the amount of financial support you receive
You can also compress the methane and also make a engine go burn methane so that..so no fossil fuels is being used search it up... It already being done... Keep up with the times..
A 500 kw plant requires circa 250 m3 of biogas every hour. Maize Sillage produces 200 - 220 m3 of biogas per ton of fresh weight depending on the dry matter and retention time. Farm yard manure “dung” will typically produce 20 tons of biogas per ton.