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11.05.2010 15:15

PRODUCING NATURAL GAS FROM COW MANURE

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By: Sevigné Castor, MBA, BEE Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission has approved the daily purchase of up to 8,000 cubic feet of quality renewable natural gas. The gas will be generated from cow manure…

08.05.2010 12:36

The Tea Party is nothing but another face of the KKK (1)

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By Kwame A Lumumba What are those Americans who stand on the right side of the political arena so mad about? Why, suddenly, is a “Tea Party” created just after the first African American president…

28.04.2010 09:18

THE DANGER OF SURGING POWER

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THE DANGER OF SURGING POWER By: Sevigné Castor, MBA, BEE The use of electricity entails special hazards from electrocution to electrical burns. Electrocutions may have decreased in recent years, but the number of…

14.04.2010 14:20

CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS TO THE GROWTH FOR RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES WORLWIDE

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By: Sevigné Castor, MBA, BEE The world is heading toward a global energy crisis due to a decline in the availability of cheap oil and our dependency on fossil fuel. This has led to increasing…

09.04.2010 14:00

HARD WATER vs SOFT WATER

Columnists Sevigne Castor 51 Sevigne Castor

Water is one of the basic needs of all living beings on this planet. It is also one of the most important constituents of the human body. The human brain is 90% water while the…

01.04.2010 11:48

Haiti: Stuck in a Trap-Added COMMENTARY by Haitian-Truth

Columnists Morse Perspective 42 By Richard Morse

I don’t mean to dwell on certain issues but until there’s some solid change in Haiti, things are going to remain: Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere. I was reading this Reuters article http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P2EU20100326 and…

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PRODUCING NATURAL GAS FROM COW MANURE

Thursday, 09 September 2010 01:37

By: Sevigné Castor, MBA, BEE

Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission has approved the daily purchase of up to 8,000 cubic feet of quality renewable natural gas. The gas will be generated from cow manure and extracted by Microgy; a company specialized in anaerobic digestion technology. This technology has been shown to generate significantly more bio-gas than other digestion methods, and has been well proven for almost two decades in Europe.

Producing natural gas from cow manure or any other manure is not new. With fossil energy supply in the United States in a state of disarray, the need to find renewable, long-term and cost-effective energy sources has received new urgency. The US depends more on natural gas for its energy needs than any other industrialized nation. It consumes some 25 percent of the world’s yearly output of natural gas, and produces nearly 85 percent of the natural gas it consumes.

Producing bio-gas is a simple biochemical process called anaerobic digestion. Manure or a similar biological waste is placed