"Companies Seek to Green the Grid With Trash Gas -
Pipeline owners and utilities eye manure, landfills, sewage to burnish environmental credentials."
wsj.com/articles/compa…
Pipeline owners and utilities eye manure, landfills, sewage to burnish environmental credentials."
wsj.com/articles/compa…
"MO hardly produces any natural gas, unless you count the hogs.
The methane wafting from manure ponds at swine farms across the state is increasingly funneled into pipelines and delivered to power plants & homes, where it is burned alongside shale gas for heat, showers & cooking
The methane wafting from manure ponds at swine farms across the state is increasingly funneled into pipelines and delivered to power plants & homes, where it is burned alongside shale gas for heat, showers & cooking
"Smithfield Foods Inc., the country’s largest pork producer, expects to be selling gas from all of its Missouri farming operations by summer.
Most of its farms already feed methane into the gas grid."
Most of its farms already feed methane into the gas grid."
"Once covers are stretched across the 4-acre lagoons at the rest and then connected to equipment that removes carbon dioxide and impurities from the fumes, Smithfield expects to supply enough gas in Missouri to fuel about 10,000 houses."
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