134. Lethbridge Biogas - Making electricity from pooh and waste food

This week, we visit Lethbridge Biogas, the largest aenerorbic digestion facility in Alberta!
www.greenenergyfutures.ca

[@davidoutdoors74]

Awesome video I started my 275 gallon IBC digester on cow manure. 4 weeks later I had burnable biogas. I now have videos of me powering a small gas generator. Gas production with good temps will bring better results very true. Colder climates have more problems with smaller systems.

[@debramclauchlan1108]

definitely need more of these all across Canada.

[@sanyonazyin6063]

I just wish that yankees would stop stuffing 730 football stadiums worth of food waste into landfills each year, and instead make biogas out of it.

[@hotm96]

@2:51 Strawberries, bananas, citrus, grapes, cantaloupes, cauliflower, all of those produces come from somewhere that's certainly not Alberta, and Canada... Having those food items being shipped in from thousands of miles away, with all the finite resource and energy invested in the production, only to end up being thrown away (to a biogas facility, which does some good at the end at least) is insane. Simply mad.

[@brandong298]

Those products are already here regardless so this is preferable to a landfill.

[@FidelKastrat]

don't forget human manure! you can add it by using vacuum toilets that can be linked directly to a biogas plant!

[@landryderrick6851]

instablaster.

[@twotone3070]

Now all they need to do is sell the waste CO2 to enclosed environment food producers along with some of the fertiliser when they pick up the waste organic matter and the process becomes even more affordable :)

[@jonathan21022]

This can also be use as a highly flexible power source. If you add gas storage or pipelines to connect the plants. Upgrade the biogas to methane and then use the pipelines to get it into homes for heating, to make plastics, or fuel for cars. You can increase and decrease the power output at will.

[@Aaron16211]

200 biogas plants in Alberta...let's build them. Our welders, pipefitters, electricians can definitely do the installation. Germany has 6,000 MW of biogas plants!

[@silvernaturemusic599]

I like the cleanliness even it's just a bio - waste management plant

[@kamalakrsna]

Makes mee happy to c these type projects. There is also alot of "greenness" if humans would stop eating pigs & beef.

[@JaspalloMusician]

Kamalakrsna Devi, how would stopping the consumption of beef and pork benefit the environment?

[@Ben-fr8gi]

+Sum Ting It's bad for the environment in many ways, here's a recent newspaper article that I'm sure explains the issues better than I can right now: www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

[@mr.coffee6242]

BRILLIANT!

[@anthonysinclair5721]

great mini documentary , also a lot of that thrown away food doesn't appear to be even close to it's sell by date!?!? : )

[@jagadishpc7290]

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[@zaneprice61]

This is such an awesome idea, why isn't this being used world wide?

[@vincnet010]

its used all over europe

[@mothergoose6087]

It's to new for most of us. I know I didn't even know you could recycle except with compost until just recently so I'm investigating it for the first time.

[@daviddavid9837]

But it is used worldwide. Just rarely in North America. I think our state and local governments in the US would regulate it into an impossibility if it became too popular. I'm looking for a tank with a large enough capacity to make enough to collect in the summer and heat my house in the winter but won't require hundreds of gallons of water. Also, when I first heard about these, the talked about fuel was grass clippings, of which I have plenty, but that seems to have fallen out of favor. I hope to be producing come spring.

[@sanyonazyin6063]

It wouldn't surprise me if that plant would be the largest biogas plant in North America as well.

[@karimaftab]

dear sir is bio gas produce in cold weather i mean at snowfall season ?

[@shantahsieh432]

My works too. I used Inplix handbooks and build it without any problems.

[@ebbtide9258]

whats not too like ?

[@rodgau7893]

+Ebb Tide No kidding, eh? Great stuff. And David Dodge rules. Go man, go :-)

[@sodalitia]

Methane - emission free energy? I guess burning methane and producing CO2 is better than releasing this methane directly into the atmosphere. But it's not emission free. Emission free would be not producing excess food waste and not making electricity by burning gas.

[@pootube4538]

I hate this world!

[@mothergoose6087]

Business as usual. Great for lessening greenhouse gas emissions, why don't we?

[@Rad_B_OLand]

Not to mention CO2 is beneficial to all plant life on our planet. Methane is not! Plants benefit us by giving off oxygen and provide sustenance. MORE CO2 please for our friends the plants.