Our goal is to rapidly shift to producing Biogas for renewable electricity and clean transportation fuels. At the same time, we want to build a sustaining soil economy that uses byproducts like Biochar to nourish soils with better water retention. In addition, we want to sequester carbon and choke down the release of methane from decomposing biomass in landfills and sewage treatment plants.
It turns out we all knew about BioEnergy - back in the day. According to the EPA, the Assyrians used Anaerobic Digestion to heat their bath water - over 3,000 years ago. In 1895, biogas harnessed from a sewage treatment plant in Exeter, England was used to fire street lamps. And post-war Germany in 1951 converted biogas from sewage sludge for transportation fuels. This is not revolutionary technology, but we ARE deploying a series of innovative applications of ancient practices to solve our three-fold opportunities:
* deploy clean renewable electricity transportation fuels
* reduce green house gas
* nourish depleted soils
BioEnergy may not be as old as dirt, but it's almost as good as.
Credit: greenenergychoice.blogspot.com
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