FEEDING A CONCRETE COW ! | AN INSIDE VIEW OF AN AD PLANT

Video sponsored by Carbon AMS
In today's video we take an in-depth behind the scenes view of an AD Plant in Banbridge, Northern Ireland. The lads from Carbon AMS gives us an inside view of the plant.
Huge thanks also to Marcus and family for their hospitality!
Massive thanks to the lads at Carbon AMS for showing us around, we found it so interesting. To find out more about AD plants and Carbon AMS follow the links below
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[@ericwilson5742]

Great video Phil first time I heard AD fully explained and true facts given too . Is father Phil thinking of building one 👍

[@wulliewhyte544]

One of them is going to knock the dust off Father Phils check book 😂

[@timizod8966]

Wow, Phil, what a brilliant video, very, very interesting and informative.

[@jix177]

Great video. Those two lads really know their stuff.

[@danielcooke7911]

My brother work on the biodomes in Italy for his PHD program. Many farms are moving over to this energy production as you have a supply of waste and can power the farm and more

[@phil6465]

My god that boys knew their stuff. Very interesting. I would love to operate this system but too expensive to set up here. It would make sense if their tractors ran off the gas too. I believe weed seeds are killed in the process too which has to be a good thing.

[@VelEire_]

It’s mental that they dont want electricity production from a reliable source like that down south… especially since peat was shut down

[@andythewelder6181]

I wonder if you could add some glass houses growing say tomatoesninto this system. So you would have somewhere with a need for heat and the co2 exhaust from the engine and somewhere for digestate to go. You could even add in a green waste composting enterprise

[@danodonovan]

Spot on! James Dyson is doing exactly this on his farm in the UK, apparently

[@sheeepguy7311]

The Berry brothers were serious farmers and Marcus is one sound fella

[@johnlydon533]

Great video Phil. Very informative & interesting. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@martinbarnicle3667]

Eamonn Ryan and his colleagues need to look at this video

[@bernardkeating6548]

What a brilliant video,,, Thanks Phil and Liv for doing this,,,,, i totally agree with your with your comments,,,, as well as all the point your raised ,,, think of all the employment it would create in rural areas,,, our government , advisory state bodies and farming organisations are asleep at the wheel,,, its proves that going green is not all doom and gloom

[@Andy-ix2ox]

Great job Phil, one of your best videos ever! It’s a great shame that this sort digester is not viable in our part of the island but it is still very important that we are aware of what can be achieved with them and what is possible even if it is at a huge cost by comparison.

[@jonathanconway8175]

Excellent video....such a shame the Republuc are going down the route of bio methane as opposed to electricity generation

[@coughlantom4139]

Every day here is a ''school day'' really educational Phil, thanks & Keep 'er Lit.

[@antmorgan5255]

Very interesting

[@patkelly7999]

Great job Everybody, very interesting, Thank You💯👍🙏

[@willyfindlay4398]

That was a BIG 🐄 COW. 😊😅😊 Great video Phil.

[@joestiller4270]

Fantastic video so full of information. Easy to understand the guys know what they are doing and you get the feeling they are very passionate on the matter.

[@irvenrathburn9421]

Good video Phil, something to think about.

[@Derry2688]

Farmer Phil do you know that you are getting a map for fs22 by simulationfortheNation

[@damienely7614]

Do ya know if it gona be released on console?

[@Derry2688]

@@damienely7614 it’s still in working process but i say it’s going to be out for in a couple month’s maybe 5-6 months or the start of fs22

[@Gearoid35]

Interesting to see thanks

[@Stonedcapone43]

Nice tour.

[@jamesmaughan]

Very informative, well done Phil!

[@farmerslife2612]

That's a class video farmer Phil great job 🎉🎉🎉

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff... 👍 👍

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Good video 👌

[@alanpugh8192]

Very interesting Phil

[@CowfarmerDan]

Excellent video Phil, very interesting.

[@brendanbannon78]

Keep up the good work Philip

[@dplawson2366]

Very interesting video 👍

[@seanmcguigan346]

Phil what about secondary fermentation on that silo face?

[@martingibbs9277]

Very interesting, great set-up.

[@gilesblackie]

Great video

[@Oisin1990]

Great video !!

[@frankcarty]

Fantastic video

[@andrewwebb2691]

A good intresting vid

[@shuttlecar34]

This is really interesting I think this is something that will come into play in ROI once costs come down to make it viable. They are building one in Carnross CO.Meath i think

[@adrianshjadesheehan9991]

Brillant video Phil the Irish government with Eamonn Ryan won't give u nothing he will be giving u a bike if your lucky the clown

[@iqbalsidhu6651]

Well come ji

[@DianeD862]

Happy Sunday evening to our favourite farmers of all times.So so good luck 😉.

[@fatbaby8193]

Good video, AD plants are excellent for farmers but without subsidies don’t pay because of costs, wind turbines are a better option if you can get grid connection/planning as long term no costs with wind

[@matthewlang-in3vn]

Turbines are great when the wind blows, so impossible to get consistent output. With AD you have the flexibility to ramp up and down according to demand which has added value.

[@fatbaby8193]

I agree but when it comes to cost at the minute in NI your costs are covered by your electricity sales but your profits are from the government subsidies so when they stop it’s not viable

[@matthewlang-in3vn]

Any of the AD plants we are involved in NI are all looking at the future which is biomethane. There is considerable cost in upgrading these plants to produce biomethane, so this is where a lot of these “profits” will go. Personally I would rather see investment in indigenous energy supply on the island of Ireland and keep young people like myself working in the country rather than sending more money overseas to support large coal, oil and gas companies but that’s my own opinion.

Is silage the best fuel for the job? Surely if it's going to make gas there must be a more suitable crop.

[@RianK645]

Silage is good because you can get 4 cuts and 4-5 spreads of digestate too

[@XtreamSheep]

Grass is low cost and we grow a lot of it

[@jascollinscork]

GREAT video soooo informative 👍🏻 there's no AD plant of this size in the south is there? Because the council AND Locals keep knocking them on the head I think 🤔 😏

[@mikica473]

Yeah all the nimbys up in arms. They are trying to get one up in Gort. Signs all over the place when you go through it about no bio gas etc. Absolute morons.

[@Ciantheking]

Could they run purely using pig slurry only as the slurry type along with the silage and everything else thats added in ?

[@matthewlang-in3vn]

They could for sure, but typically with pig slurry you get a lower dry matter which means lower gas output per tonne. Also there is a higher risk with antibiotics in pig slurry. There are a lot of plans using pig slurry however!

[@bobuncle8704]

I think they could be great for the farming industry. The only problem I foresee, it would require a government with understanding and discretion. Haven’t seen too many of those around lately.

[@JimRyan-dv1hc]

why is everything based on a grant

Oh look a squirrel.

[@michaelstaunton1632]

👍👍👍

[@nialldaly7108]

Great Video, However, I'm shocked, At 36:45, He says there is no need for extra electricty in ROI, yet this morning i heard that we do not have enough electricty to allow Data Centers to expand and Amazon and others are expanding outside of ROI because we DO NOT have enough stable electricty to allow them to expand, Plus Electricty has trippled in price singe Ukrain/Russian war. If we had enough electricty it would not have risen al all, let alone by 300%. What are the Irish Govenrment playing at. And What is Eamon Ryan doing. He has repeatedly stopped LNG from doing their thing on the Tarbert/Ballylongford landbank

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

It’s an Eamon Ryan policy to stop data centres connecting to the electric grid in favour of running on natural gas. Hence the policy is to create bio methane to feed into the gas grid instead of electricity

[@finbarreburn5112]

Try getting a connection onto our Semi State Utilities / Monopolies ESB Networks/ Bord Gais and you'll soon see the colour of their jib 💰 😡

[@nialldaly7108]

@@FARMERPHIL3690 Again , Thats fine except We do not have a gas grid except in the citys, Not doing much for the country people.

[@reemkoG]

The style of this Plant is quite outdated in Germany they´re been built much more simply and clean since 09/10 . The roof is also quite vulnerable to the weather, which is why modern systems have a two-layer roof that holds up a weatherproof film with air at maximum level and the gas roof can go up and down protected underneath. Today only large biomethane Plant`s are built and small ones only if a storage tank has to be built anyway because the farm size Plant`s that were built between 05 and 12 are no longer profitable

[@Derry2688]

First

[@homey3051]

[@CALOCALKY]

Thay are farming microbes . Cows live in sheds in winter microbes live in tanks in order to survive the have to be kept warm about body heat . Cows do best when feed well . Producing milk beef and slurry Microbes if fed well will produces more gass and slurry. If we are serious about off shore wind then buffet heat storage when the wind is blowing to heat the plant rather than using 1 third of there gass to heat the microbes. Have to agree slurry ad plants have the way for me and getting excess energy from wind have to be driven by the government

[@greggroome2791]

🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏👍👍💪💪

[@finbarreburn5112]

When Eamon Ryan TD shot down 'The Beef Plan Movement' idea of the construction of a biodigester/ anaerobic digester '20 in conjunction with Dept of Environment & Agri (on a prototype scale) 'If that's all yous have to talk about you're wasting my time Goodbye' Btw What way's the wind blowing today 😠

[@barrett2288]

The AD plants in the north were a pure cod. Produce extremely expensive electricity. That’s why they’re doing biomethane in the south and not biogas. None of those ad plants would survive without massive government subsidies. We can’t tar the roads pay hospital staff in the north but we’ve got millions spare to hand over to a few wealthy landlords. 😡

[@patrickkelly1055]

Seam to be bang on with that statement there obviously not a very efficient way of producing power if all this grant money and surely all the extra digestate from them wouldn’t be helping this whole derogation thing

[@barrett2288]

They’re financially and environmentally unsustainable. Hence why so much of the discussion in the video is about what the government will decide to do next. It’s a sure sign that without government money these plants wouldn’t exist. And if they can’t produce power cheaper than wind, solar or gas why are they being built?

[@matthewlang-in3vn]

I appreciate your opinion, but the digesters that we operate and intend to build are fully sustainable environmentally and financially. Painting many canvasses with one brush isn’t wise! Yes the Northern Ireland model is well supported, but it is providing a lot of employment and revenue to rural areas and when operated correctly have a lot of environmental benefits. Our ROI model does not depend on any government subsidy, but instead is based on a cost of production price for our gas that will be sold to businesses with a large heat demand that cannot decarbonise using electricity. You are welcome to get in touch if you would like to know anything further 👍🏻

[@barrett2288]

So there’ll be no need for government subsidy for your ROI plants?

[@matthewlang-in3vn]

The demand for biomethane is present currently, a government subsidy currently isn’t. If a subsidy does come in it will make biomethane more affordable and more available going forward but for now we are working with no subsidy.

[@tonymurray814]

I’ve no clue what this video is about!!

[@Ciantheking]

Was it you're sight or you're hearing that let you down... Because if you couldn't hear what they were talking about and can't see the description of the video or a quick Google of a few select words, then I'm not sure what else we can do for you

[@alanak3210]

Need a translator for this fella !!!

[@robertmartin259]

Farmer Phil, needs to requests a freedom of information from the northern ireland executive. How much tax payers money was paid in subsidy, grant, government contribution, ROC etc, to the 79 AD plants in northern ireland, each year. Starting 20 years ago detailing each years reward to these operators and what is committed for the next 20 years.

[@bsom6365]

The RHI Scandal would be seen as chicken feed compared to the figures involved in the AD Plants.

[@ifiwereadoleman]

Northern Ireland? No such place lad

[@Clareladd]

Video too long

[@nialldaly7108]

Not at all, It is intresting, It is only long if you are not interested.

[@Ciantheking]

Stick to watching the hurling so lad. Ye won't be going too far again this year. That should be nice and short for you 😉