How would you like to support a cause for about the price of your Sunday newspaper? Well Smart Energy by NW Natural claims that you can fight the climate change by doing just that. The main goal of this campaign is to bring biogas into Oregon so we have another source of alternative fuel to choose from. You may be asking what exactly is biogas and here’s your answer. Biogas is essentially cow manure. The process in which this goes through to become biogas is shown in the picture below.
Did you know a typical cow produces 120 pounds of waste each day? Not very pleasant to smell, but even worse for the environment. Manure produces methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas. The good news is that gases emitted from cow waste can be captured and used as a renewable energy source.
That’s where Smart Energy comes in. Projects developed through Smart Energy focus on the development of biogas in our region. And with 14 million pounds of cow waste generated in Oregon each day, there’s a lot of potential energy just waiting to be utilized.
For more information on this project find out more here:
http://www.smartenergynw.com/index.php
Posted by Alexandra Berreth
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