Lawmaker wants to help firms develop gas-from-waste plants

[Fledermaus]

By Steven Falkenhagen, Cronkite News Service


The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, but a state lawmaker is promoting a renewable energy source that's available in any weather: biogas.

So what is biogas? You might not want to know.

Put delicately, it comes from animal manure and the human equivalent.

"It is about as renewable as it gets," said Rep. Rick Murphy, R-Glendale.

Murphy has authored HB 2373, which would provide tax incentives for firms that build facilities to generate biogas. The measure has won committee approval and was awaiting action by the full House.

Murphy wants biogas, a process turning human and animal waste into methane, to be among the options utilities can use to achieve the Arizona Corporation Commission's mandate of generating 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025.

http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=10950

[xfundy]

1. This is good news!

(I think!)

I've always wondered (well, not always, but lately, actually last year after the septic tank had to be vacuumed out) why they didn't tap that source of fuel. Can't use it in the garden, and there is plenty of it around.

[NNadir]

2. Really? Animal farms are renewable?

Who knew?

I kinda thought that huge meat farms sort of depended on huge tonnage of dangerous fossil fuels, but what do I know?

How many huge meat farms run as closed systems?

[Fledermaus]

3. Gosh, life is a closed system. Do you know of any others?

Your funny! Would you like it not to be?