[Digestion] Food-waste anaerobic digester at Universityof Colorado

[Art Krenzel]

Harmon,

Excellent answer to the food waste problem!

In the world that I am working on, all people moving vehicles are electric 
or biodiesel.  The electric power is generated from solar energy stored in 
the form of tree biomass and algae.  The CO2 produced by the electric 
generation is recovered to produce more algae.  Biodiesel is extracted from 
the algae and the solid residues are fermented to alcohol or digested via 
anaerobic digestion to methane.  Biodiesel, methane and alcohol provide 
vehicle fuel which removes CO2 from the recycling system.  The system 
generates mobile fuel energy by collecting and recycling CO2 in a closed 
short cycle loop using algae and sunlight.

Recently (in the last two months), an algae biodiesel system demonstrated a 
production rate of 56,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year for a trial 
run of 9 days.  I think this can be the real answer to the production of 
home grown fuels, not corn.

Art


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harmon Seaver" <hseaver at gmail.com>
To: <digestion at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Digestion] Food-waste anaerobic digester at Universityof 
Colorado


>   Wouldn't the best use of food waste be to feed it to pigs -- then
> harvest the meat and use the pig manure for fertilizer or else AD it?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Digestion mailing list
> Digestion at listserv.repp.org
> http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_listserv.repp.org
> Beginner's Guide to Biogas
> http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/
> http://info.bioenergylists.org
>