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- cbgaloot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A family Energy Farm, biodiesel, ethanol and pork chops.
Nobody will argue that we need to reduce our dependence on oil, both foreign and domestically produced.
A lot of ideas have been kited to help. Most are singular ideas like wind power or biodiesel, or Ethanol. None has mentioned putting several things together on a scale suitable for smaller farms. I think that perhaps several can be put together to form a sort of synergy.
Consider this.
A farm grows soybeans and corn and pigs.
The soybeans are pressed on the farm to extract the oil, which is sold to a biodiesel producer.
The waste from the soybeans is then processed by a methane digester.
The methane (A.K.A. natural gas) from the digester is used for energy around the farm, including providing heat for the distillation of the ethanol.
The corn is used to produce ethanol on the farm. The high protein waste "mash" from the fermentation process is then fed to pigs.
Possibly some or all of the waste from the soybeans can be fed to these pigs.
The waste from the pig lots, is also fed to the methane digester. In fact almost any plant mater can be used to make methane in the digester, that includes corn cobs left over from the alcohol production.
This whole farm could be profitable, have zero carbon footprint and reduce the carbon footprint of every vehicle that is powered by it's biodiesel or ethanol.
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