Time for Governments to Subsidise Anaerobic Digestion
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Anaerobic Digestion is a cinderella among waste treatment technologies, and yet it provides a unique method by which the fuel methane is produced. Methane is natural gas. It is hardly necessary to point out that natural gas is an incredibly useful green fuel with the advantages that it can be:-
- made from waste, waste slurries etc (energy that is freely available and would othewise be wasted);
- burnt easily to create electricity plus heat which can be used for example to heat a greenhouse;
- converted to hydrogen which is a clean fuel and can be used in an hydrogen fuel cell;
- is a fuel unaffected by oil price and thus provides price stability;
- converted to a biofuel for cars such as bioethanol.
However, the technology needs further development before it can show its full potential. Governments can and should assist do so visit this Anaerobic Digestion site here to learn more and help to get this technology into the mainstream.
