We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Fossil Fuels and Peak Oil ForumRestore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities - Lewis Mumford
Rural families can slash their energy costs, improve their health and help preserve local forests by harvesting natural gas from rotting manure, researchers argue.
Thanks for the link. Interesting article. I'm sure I've heard of a piggery here in Australia doing something like that as an environmentally friendly way of cutting costs. It was interesting to read about the wider benefits, eg regarding health.
I think the real market for this process would be feed lots and dairy farms. It could be much larger scale and the improvement in air quality would be significant.
Anaerobic digesters seem particularly suitable for countries such as India because it's generally nice and warm for the bacteria over there. They're also quite low tech. I wonder how much of the methane leaks out though.
When burning gas is good for the planet
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