Turning chicken poop and weeds into biofuel

[rangerrebew]

Turning chicken poop and weeds into biofuel
May 3, 2017
 

Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird's popularity results in a lot of waste that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for dealing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now scientists have developed a way to do this by mixing the waste with another environmental scourge, an invasive weed that is affecting agriculture in Africa. They report their approach in ACS' journal Energy & Fuels.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-chicken-poop-weeds-biofuel.html#jCp

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Turning chicken poop and weeds into biofuel
May 3, 2017
 

Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird's popularity results in a lot of waste that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for dealing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now scientists have developed a way to do this by mixing the waste with another environmental scourge, an invasive weed that is affecting agriculture in Africa. They report their approach in ACS' journal Energy & Fuels.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-chicken-poop-weeds-biofuel.html#jCp

this is similar to turning corn into fuel.

Corn is food, poop is used to grow food, and weeds have the nutrients for the soil to produce food.

We need no more food to fuel experiments, as hydrocarbons do things quite well already.

[roamer_1]

NO WAY.

Chickensh*t is garden gold. What moron would use it otherwise?

[Joe Wooten]

Another thing the article does not mention is the cost. is it competitive with petroleum based fuels without a subsidy? If not, it is a waste of time, besides, it has already been mentioned that chicken crap is a great garden fertilizer after it has been composted for a short time.

[EC]

Another thing the article does not mention is the cost. is it competitive with petroleum based fuels without a subsidy? If not, it is a waste of time, besides, it has already been mentioned that chicken crap is a great garden fertilizer after it has been composted for a short time.

The remains, after digestion, are a good fertilizer. Third paragraph down.

Sounds like a modification of the homebrew methane digesters we used in Botswana. Those'd give off enough methane to run a gennie for long enough to charge the batteries, at least. Made from scrap and fed with waste - not a whole lot of cost involved for an individual or family to keep one going.

[roamer_1]

Another thing the article does not mention is the cost. is it competitive with petroleum based fuels without a subsidy? If not, it is a waste of time, besides, it has already been mentioned that chicken crap is a great garden fertilizer after it has been composted for a short time.

I guess Big Farma doesn't want what Tyson Chicken is putting out... Why not is completely beyond me.

Feed the waste from the table and the garden to the chickens, they turn it into poop... put the poop on the garden... Circle of life, man...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I guess Big Farma doesn't want what Tyson Chicken is putting out... Why not is completely beyond me.

Feed the waste from the table and the garden to the chickens, they turn it into poop... put the poop on the garden... Circle of life, man...

This smells like another govt subsidy (no pun intended)

[roamer_1]

This smells like another govt subsidy (no pun intended)

Well, it's chickensh*t, so it's right up their alley....