It's Friday: Biogas made from carcasses
Warning! This post has a great "yuck" factor. You've been warned.Imida, an institute in the region of Murcia in SE Spain is currently investigating making biogas from carcasses of and other animal parts discarded from slaughterhouses. Murcia is the right place to do this, as the region produces more than 1,600 tons of unused pork meat and bones waste per month.
Imida liquefies the discarded parts using bacteria present in the meat itself. This meat "juice" then is fermented in tanks and produces about 30 to 40 m3 of biogas per 40,000 liters. If you do the math for the aforementioned 1,600 tons of pork, that's 48,000 to 64,000 m3 of biogas on a monthly basis. Cool and gross.
[Source: Europa Press via Econoticias]
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Kevin Nugent 8:41PM (4/11/2008)
What a weird sick way to make use out of the disposable.
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Sean 9:50PM (4/11/2008)
This is really a great idea. After all, oil is compressed decayed carcasses anyway, so why not replicate the process ourselves? Come to think of it, I wonder why this hasn't been thought of sooner?
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Mark 10:37PM (4/11/2008)
This is a good idea. It gives use to a once-useless pile of dead animals that would have been burned or gone to waste anyways.
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Wave54 1:32AM (4/12/2008)
They've been converting chicken and turkey waste-products to oil and other products for years now at a Con-Agra plant in Carthage, Missouri.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/18871/
http://www.mindfully.org/Air/2003/Burn-Turkey-Waste-Energy16may03.htm
http://www.res-energy.com/technology/index.asp
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Niralisherni 5:39AM (4/12/2008)
Can you just imagine the SMELL!!!
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rgseidl 11:44AM (4/12/2008)
Did you think the waste you produce, directly or indirectly, just magically goes away? The BSE fiasco in the UK was caused by farmers giving their cattle feed that contained dried, ground-up sheep's brains. Turning carcasses into biofuel of one type or another is a much better way of dealing with the abatoir waste.
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Andrew 9:54AM (4/15/2008)
They have been doing this in Scotland for years - mixing animal wasteand waste cooking oil to make biodiesel. See http://www.argentenergy.com/
The local town of Motherwell uses the diesel in their buses.
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