Sentences with phrase «methane digesters on»

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

NativeEnergy helped the Saylor family install an anaerobic methane digester on their dairy farm.

NativeEnergy helped install a methane digester on the Mains Dairy Farm in southern Pennsylvania.

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

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I love the info graph on the methane digester, the more you know!

On the Straus farm, the cows» waste is turned into electricity via a methane digester.

Environmental groups and researchers have long focused on controlling livestock emissions through the use of gas - trapping digesters that have the potential to convert manure methane into usable energy.

A small dairy farmer gets capital to install digesters on his farm to control methane emissions.»

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large facilities, the use of animal waste in anaerobic digesters to produce methane (natural gas) is catching on fast.

Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic digester that could capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricity.

The Central Government also plans to focus on promoting water conservation through the use of drip irrigation, among other efforts, and by developing drought - resistant crops, along with mitigating methane emissions from rice production and controlling farm waste through the creation of large - scale biogas digesters.

The methane digester will be built on a Williamsburg County hog farm and the electricity generated will be used by customers of Santee Cooper, the state - owned utility.

There are 250 anaerobic digesters operating on livestock farms in the United States, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from methane.