ApocaDocs: Manure could power two million homes

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Posted Wed Feb 18 2009: from Telegraph.co.uk:


	Manure could power two million homes http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1234977667 According to Defra, the UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of organic material per year that could be used to produce biogas, 90 million tonnes of which comes from manure and slurry. The National Farmers' Union has a target to have 1,000 on-farm anaerobic digestion (AD) plants by 2020, which will power farms and produce fertilisers as a by-product of the process. Speaking at the NFU conference in Birmingham today, Farming and Environment Minister Jane Kennedy is expected to say: "We're producing more organic waste in this country than we can handle, over 12 million tonnes of food waste a year -- and farmers know too well the challenges of managing manure and slurry.

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'Doc Jim says:

That's 90,000,000 tonnes of shit!