Instead of buggerising around talking up the so called threat, why doesnt this brilliant scientific peer group get their collective wisdom together and provide a solution that is clean/green and lean on our wallets?
No, theyd rather hang a threat around the worlds neck and side with govts to tax people for the solution.
That lazy $30k...so if you spend that the system lasts how long did someone say... without maintenance?
Dreamin.
I believe you are from the area so was wondering what the locals think of the
grant to Bindaree Beef to contribute to the cost of installing a biodigester?
Wed 3 Jul 2013,
"Bindaree Beef has received a $23-million Clean Energy grant to build a system that will eventually end the abattoir's need to be connected to the electricity grid.
A $45-million biodigester will be built on the company's Inverell site, processing waste and run-off, turning it into methane and using the gas as a power source.
The equipment will dramatically reduce reliance on coal-fired power.
Federal New England MP, Tony Windsor, told the NSW Country Hour the project has wider implications for Australian processing industries.
"It will, over time, eliminate much of the dependence on the electricity grid itself and could eventually remove itself totally," he said.
"This will give this business real control over its utility prices [because] what it actually does is supply a closed-loop energy system that can be converted into electricity, or heat, or gas to power a lot of the equipment."
General Manager of Bindaree Beef, Kerri Newton, says the high-tech biodigester is based on American technology.
When finished she says it will reduce the company's carbon emissions by 95 per cent.
"We will reduce our coal usage which is 7,200 metric tonnes of coal and that will eliminate all the smoke and we will be able to reduce our electricity usage substantially," she said.
"We're talking about the red and green waste streams, which is your paunch and your run-offs, and that will be put into the digester and that is where they capture the methane gas."
Project engineer, David Sneddon, says the coal-fired process will soon be replaced with a renewable, and more sustainable, process.
"We'll capture the methane, store it in bladders, we scrub it which is cleaning out all the impurities out and then we'll use it to fire a gas-fired boiler which will eliminate our coal-fired boiler and the left-over will generate electricity," he said.
"All we retrieve out of it is methane and fertiliser and Class A water.""
