Chicken bedding could generate a third of Ulster's green power

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Used-chicken-bedding-could-generate.3646953.jp

Chicken bedding could generate a third of Ulster's green power

Three Northern Ireland poultry companies could meet a third of the Province's green energy targets using a £100 million plant which runs on used chicken bedding.

O'Kane Poultry Ltd, Moy Park Ltd, and Glenfarm Holdings Ltd have joined forces to create Rose Energy, a company which proposes to construct a 30 megawatt power generating plant, fuelled mainly by poultry bedding, on the Ballyvannon Road near Glenavy in County Antrim.

The poultry bedding and dung have been causing compliance problems with new EU legislation restricting the spreading of nitrates in the countryside.

Rose Energy director, Mike Alcorn said, "This is an exciting project for Northern Ireland, using proven technology to deliver huge benefits to the province on two key fronts – improving the environment and generating renewable energy. The plant will provide an opportunity to use two valuable biomass fuel sources locally, which have for several years been used as fuel for similar plants in GB. Rose Energy represents a huge financial commitment, the majority of which is being privately funded. The relevant government departments are aware of our proposals and have indicated their support in principle. We are working closely with them to secure the remaining funding required to realise this project."

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[asjr]

1. Well, well, a new name for

chicken shit.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. No, not really

They're different things:

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The poultry bedding and dung ...

http://www.recyclewood.org.uk/buy.cfm?product_type=447

[NNadir]

7. Amen.

[kestrel91316]

3. Biogas rocks, and the end product is a nice mucky fertilizer.

I want to hear that all of LONDON is making electricity from biogas produced by the city wastewater plants. THEN England can crow.

[NickB79]

4. This isn't a biogas plan, though, it's a biomass plan

AKA, they will burn the chicken bedding, and you get no fertilizer from it (except for a bit of ash).

With natural gas supplies for chemical fertilizers declining, burning one of the best composting materials on the planet for electricity is almost as insane as growing biofuels.

[kestrel91316]

5. Burning it IS stupid. They need to put it under water, let it ferment anaerobically,

harvest the gas for electricity, and spread the VERY NICE muck on the fields.

Dummies.

[madokie]

6. I think if we would use all our waste to supply whatever energy it could rather than just bury it

would help in our overall energy picture. The land fills we already have and past should be drilled for the natural gas they produce.