Netherlands lines itself up for the poop-powered energy revolution that has already hit many countries worldwide. Hoping to provide no less than 1,100 homes with the heat generated via anaerobic digestion of cow dung, the Dutch leader in suggesting renewable energy solutions, Essent opened a cow dung-powered plant last Friday.
At the plant itself, cow manure along with grass and food residues will undergo fermentation and will release biogas. A special 5.5-km biogas pipeline from the Nij Bosma Zathe experimental dairy cattle farm will transport the biogas to a thermal plant’s gas turbines. The heat, thus generated, will go to the homes in the De Zuidlanden area (Leeuwarden) in northern Netherlands. After all, it’s good to see nations resorting to the basest and purest natural resources for energy.
Via: CleanTechnica
