[Sosfbay-discuss] Cow Power

[Wes Rolley]

Tian Harter wrote:

Here are a couple of other positions:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#24071014

Yes, it was on the Nightly News with Brian Williams Friday night.

It appears to make sense.  But, is it green?  There are those who argue 
that it involves combustion and is therefore not acceptable as part of 
the Green Part agenda.  I do not agree, since alternative processes 
still produce methane, itself a greenhouse gas, much stronger than CO2 
but with a much shorter lifetime before it breaks down.

Wes
> Notes from a talk by Ken Brennan
>
>  > In 2007, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that the
>  > California Public Utilities Commission approved two gas purchase
>  > agreements with biogas project developers Bioenergy Solutions and
>  > Microgy.  These firms will each deliver a contract maximum of 8,000
>  > Mcf of pipeline quality renewable natural gas every day.  The methane
>  > gas, captured from cow manure, will be generated onsite at large dairy
>  > farms in California, and delivered to PG&E through its extensive gas
>  > transmission pipeline network.  In addition to producing renewable
>  > energy, each of these facilities can produce significant greenhouse
>  > gas benefits by capturing methane from cow manure.  The city of Palo
>  > Alto is considering biogas as a source of alternative energy.
>  >
>  > Ken Brennan, a Senior Project Manager in PG&E's Business Development
>  > section, will describe the technology behind the initiative, and how
>  > biogas is a triple win for California, delivering clean, renewable
>  > energy, improving air quality and providing farmers with a new revenue
>  > stream that would otherwise go unutilized.

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