Great video. Liam Minehan makes some great points. Really like the fact that a cross section of stakeholders, including smaller farmers, were interviewed for their input.
I really enjoyed this program. It showed the connection between agricultural waste, energy security, and food security. I believe that at some point all of Europe will be adopting anaerobic digesters to make biogas an important percentage of overall energy. This together with wind, solar, marine energy, and more efficient uses of energy will help decrease energy dependence on fossil fuels. May you live in interesting times.
There is also a company in Lincolnshire England that harvest grass from highway verges and turns it into bio gas I think which is better than just using grass silage and also using highway verges grass helps wildlife and wild flowers
This could all be implemented if energy was nationalised in ireland, particularly the gas grid and electric grid. Small scale independent producers could get paid fairly for there energy production, the nationalised energy company could ensure reasonable profits each year, whilst keeping energy costs of households low, and re-invest profits back into renewables
Though replacing digestate on a grass field is better than untreated feces, the better solution is first feed the digestate to worms, and apply the worm casting on the fields. Worm castings do not readily volatilize into the atmosphere not pollute ground
After ppl have taken the cure that was never a cure at all but a filthy trick to get alternate systems inside us, that have a life of their OWN, it could just be horrifying to see what those worms could turn into..Research what's really in the stuff and you'll know what I am saying. Be sure to grow all samples in body temp and test at body temp too, because the stuff shrinks when it's cooler. ua-cam.com/video/TcKpx2DxGwY/v-deo.html
6:21 I am an energy farmer. I grow crops for energy. 6:52 their narrow margins cause them to buy energy from US, instead of investing in their own digester for energy.
Now NewHolland have the T6 methane/CNG 140-180 boost tractor, the whole energy farming process could be closed loop (if you use a forager wagon instead of chopper).
Surely it makes more sense to farm beef than grow grass exclusively for energy as this is the only way Irish farmers are surviving atm. However, any remaining grass and slurry would provide a great secondary income to farmers at a time that they are struggling as well as help reduce the €2 million fine from the cancellation of methane from slurry spraying.
You can add any greens & saw dust sticks at the end & press out pellets or brick to be used as firewood then collect Ash as fertilizer. Build a fireplace with a flu that collects smoke oil & FILTERS the smoke so had very lil exhaust.
Biogas should be made from organic waste. All organic waste should go to digestion not landfill. But PV produces about 20 times more electricity than energy crops per hectare. By slashing meat consumption huge areas of land becomes available for PV and wind turbines.
Q: Can it be an idea to grow a lot of seaweed along the coast, to use it as biogas? And when there is enough seaweed, it can also be used for making sustainable plastic?
The amount of resources humans waste is incredible, the heat from datacenters we vent into the air instead of heating 15.000 homes from a single data center, all the garden stuff we collectively burn out back, all the oppertunities we cant use because of dumb rules and short sightnednes. A Danish farmer on bornholm years back made his own oil to fuel his tractors, he was hammered by the state because he was not a refinery.
Surely all this is a no-brainer for the Depts of Agriculture and Energy to get behind. It reduces methane in the atmosphere, increases our indigenous renewable energy production and siphons off CO2 which could be used in the food and drink industry. Also, if beef farming isn't a viable way of life for some farmers without substantial subsidies, surely they should be incentivized to redirect their efforts to a more sustainable, profitable way of farming?
@@kyeprice1301 "government money" is taxpayer money, and tax payer money invested in Ireland's energy independence, and for any country's, becomes well spent funds.
The transportation efficiency of an electric vehicle is greater than the efficiency of an internal combustion engine. More miles could be driven electrically than by burning biogas in a vehicle. In other words, if biogas, for instance, is burnt to make steam for a steam generator turbine, and this produces electricity, the electricity could be used for transportation, and it has the additional benefit that if people don’t want to drive, they can use the electricity at home or on businesses. This means that converting biogas to electricity has a greater added value than burning biogas. Burning biogas only produces heat which can then be used for one single purpose (cooking, making electricity, or driving); however, electricity can be used at the end point of use for various purposes with increasing efficiency levels (cooking, lighting, washing, manufacturing, driving, etc.).
The only reason they want us in electric cars is for total control, because THEY control the GRID, and they want us all LOCKED DOWN in their sustainable prison cities controlled by satanist naghtzee U.N. freaks.
There was an article years ago about inventing technology for that. Factory farming produces exorbitant methane and so does fracking. We have to get methane out of atmosphere. Possibly with lasers heating it up and or frequencies, possibly via drones, heating up that way.
i don't think on a small scale it would work efficiently for home use in Ireland as they need much heat to produce gas. home bio degesters work great in the likes of Africa. or hotter climates. just my hours and hours of research. gud luck
Precision injecting is infinitely more preferable. With slurry spraying and aside from the obvious environmental issues, everyone for miles around has to endure the horrid smell
If you ‘’harvest grass for gas’’ then you have import animal feed to make up for the loss of Grass feed. Would be far better to grow Algae in Photo Bio Reactors(PBR) would use a fraction of the land, and use waste water to feed the Algae, cleaning it in the process! Then plant food forests on the land instead of using animals!
at 2:57 did he really just say it produces 120,000 Thousand liters of gas per year? Not a chance - Maybe he meant to say ml which is around 32gallons of gas per year - which if so - is still very useful for that size
In Kerala, in India for cattle feed some tall kinds of grass is grown. I do not know whether growing this kind of tall grass, could yield more grass than what is being grown on these fields which appear to be very short. so the total volume of the grass grown can be increased. anyway this is my Limited knowledge. I do not know whether it is sustainable thought?
So if you keep a cow indoors in a specially designed shed gas can be trapped in the roof and burnt in an engine to produce electricity giving you carbon free beef. If every cow can produce energy for one car that some amount of energy
@@eanna3781 I fundamental disagree the person that mind any anamel is the key to it's happiness . Some farmers open a gate a a cow follows them into a milking parlor with a rub from the farmer. Other farmer has to drive cows into a parlor and gets a kick from the cow because the farmer has created cruel and un caring environment.
@@eanna3781 Depends on how green you are . Me personally I prefer the tradishnial way of only for the winter. But if you want to stop emissions then all the time
Instead of putting all those food wastes directly into the digesters feed them to the pigs and then put the pig wastes into the digesters. Same with grass and cows.
You would think so… but I found out that if you work from the raw grass [as opposed to the predigested version… manure] you get considerably more gas by comparison. I know… that seems counterintuitive at first but think of it this way, the cows have extracted a fair amount of the available “energy” [available in the grass] if they eat it first before it goes to the gas reactor…. It’s just in a much more “prepared” state as manure. So use both together. But if you are eating the meat anyway… well, then you are also gaining value from that grass just in a different way. Oh and [completely] “Grass fed” beef [and done organically] is arguably good for you [contrary to all the “red meat hysteria, propaganda” ]. Cows do not eat grains and when they do, the fats they produce are bad for us to eat [so THEN, red meat is not so good for you] BUT when cows eat only what they should, [grasses] the fats are full of Omega 3’s [like fish oil]….hmmm , go figure?
Would be much more efficient and much Greener to use Algae grown in Photo Bio Reactors(PBR) 40x more Bio mass is produced per Acre than the next best Bio mass crop. Also the CO2 emitted from Gas generator(s) can be fed back into the PBR’s closing the CO2 loop, and if atmospheric CO2 was also used in the PBR it would become Carbon Negative!
You are correct, but you’re kinda missing the point. Grass is what they have plenty of and the infrastructure [already in place] to handle it. Algae would be much more effective but they don’t have the infrastructure to harvest it let alone grow it…. And the point was also to help the cattle farmers at the same time. A two for one proposition [at a minimum]?
Why use grass? Wait a little bit longer; feed the animals; get milk, meat, eggs, cheese, and butter, and use the manure to make biogas. Timing in life is everything.
Because farmers are surviving on EU subsidies and still not making a good living and because livestock farming is a high carbon cycle as opposed to eating a healthier low carbon plant based diet.
To the farmers that only get 2 cent per kw hour, hook that power up to bitcoin mining farms. You generate your own electricity and electricity is a huge operation expense to bitcoin mining. You could basically mine bitcoin free of charge (apart from the price of the miners)
That comment that the woodchips will come from America and the money will go to Donald Trump was really pretty prejudiced. Oh boy! I got a big laugh and just shook my head.
I agree! I guess TDS is not exclusive to the USA…. And I wouldn’t have used your word,”prejudiced” I would use the word,”ignorant”!! It is Americans [albeit a select few?] are receiving that money directly… NOT Trump
As an American I support every country's energy sovereignty and though he was using pandering language a bit, I support his mindset to want his country to be energy self sufficient.
Interesting apart from the bullshit on methane from cattle (pardon the pun). Firstly methane from livestock is cyclical. Secondly, that nonsense about the methane from one cow vs the family car has long since been debunked. Thirdly, cattle slurry (from housed livestock) is a good feedstock for an AD plant so you can produce food & electricity.
Wind and solar energy keep dropping in price every year. They are the safest and cheapest way to generate electricity. All transportation is going electric. Electric cars, electric trucks, electric buses, electric garden tools, electric boats. Everything is going electric.
Emission targets are nonsense. Ireland is barely industrialised compared to other countries and is only responsible for a tiny amount of greenhouse gases.
Yes “Emission Targets” are BS! Regardless of “climate change” beliefs or unbeliefs … For all the screaming and fear mongering going on…mankind is powerless to do anything about ”climate change” [collectively] on any account. The Whole thing is ridiculous as it has always been! [Again wether climate change is reality or fiction aside]. So, what Ireland lacks in “industry” it more than makes up for, in its meat and dairy industries. Cows produce enormous amounts of methane [oddly, released more from their “front sides”, than their backsides as “burps” ] and methane is orders of magnitudes more of a “greenhouse gas” than CO2 is, by a long shot. So this is why Europe is going after Ireland and penalizing them… “Meat is BAD”…. [that’s sarcasm, if you can’t tell?] But what about the north American plains prior to its discovery by the Europeans ? It was said that Buffalo herds where so massive it took over a week for a Hurd of them to pass you if you where camped out on the plains? Arguably in numbers higher than our present population?? Hundreds of millions of buffalo. The point? What is a buffalo, but a BIG wild cow? And what did they eat? And what did they produce? Do the math.
I applaud people who find a way to be free of the global dependent system. Being energy independent is the corner stone to being free and independent. In the end that will be a bigger problem for the people measuring your cow's farts than climate change. And they're already complaining about minute traces of GHG in natural gas. When the cows are gone you'll be the next reason for CC, no matter how safe and clean you make it.
Methane is very dangerous for atmosphere but if scientists can capture it and burn it off in atmosphere...That frees countries up to ferment sewage/waste into methane, then convert that methanol and stop fracking/ drilling for oil..
Great video. Liam Minehan makes some great points. Really like the fact that a cross section of stakeholders, including smaller farmers, were interviewed for their input.
Excellent video. I was excited when I heard grass and waste instead of maize. I am interested in developing the digester for my project.
Great Video, clearly a true pathway to the future, thanks for sharing
I really enjoyed this program. It showed the connection between agricultural waste, energy security, and food security.
I believe that at some point all of Europe will be adopting anaerobic digesters to make biogas an important percentage of overall energy.
This together with wind, solar, marine energy, and more efficient uses of energy will help decrease energy dependence on fossil fuels.
May you live in interesting times.
There is also a company in Lincolnshire England that harvest grass from highway verges and turns it into bio gas I think which is better than just using grass silage and also using highway verges grass helps wildlife and wild flowers
Thanks for that Dan. Its a great idea, should be the same for all local authorities. Hope yóu enjoyed the episode
This could all be implemented if energy was nationalised in ireland, particularly the gas grid and electric grid. Small scale independent producers could get paid fairly for there energy production, the nationalised energy company could ensure reasonable profits each year, whilst keeping energy costs of households low, and re-invest profits back into renewables
Very informative thank you!
wonderful.... its amazing
Though replacing digestate on a grass field is better than untreated feces, the better solution is first feed the digestate to worms, and apply the worm casting on the fields. Worm castings do not readily volatilize into the atmosphere not pollute ground
After ppl have taken the cure that was never a cure at all but a filthy trick to get alternate systems inside us, that have a life of their OWN, it could just be horrifying to see what those worms could turn into..Research what's really in the stuff and you'll know what I am saying. Be sure to grow all samples in body temp and test at body temp too, because the stuff shrinks when it's cooler.
ua-cam.com/video/TcKpx2DxGwY/v-deo.html
Ghoulish but interesting. The ammonia might help storage of hydrogen though.
6:21 I am an energy farmer. I grow crops for energy. 6:52 their narrow margins cause them to buy energy from US, instead of investing in their own digester for energy.
for small farmer there seems to be no digester available. Home diy type won't do. Need to have option to load manure with tracktor
@16:43 “such as by precision injecting”
(While exhibiting a dribble bar)
Now NewHolland have the T6 methane/CNG 140-180 boost tractor, the whole energy farming process could be closed loop (if you use a forager wagon instead of chopper).
Amazing
Surely it makes more sense to farm beef than grow grass exclusively for energy as this is the only way Irish farmers are surviving atm. However, any remaining grass and slurry would provide a great secondary income to farmers at a time that they are struggling as well as help reduce the €2 million fine from the cancellation of methane from slurry spraying.
You can add any greens & saw dust sticks at the end & press out pellets or brick to be used as firewood then collect Ash as fertilizer.
Build a fireplace with a flu that collects smoke oil & FILTERS the smoke so had very lil exhaust.
Biogas should be made from organic waste. All organic waste should go to digestion not landfill. But PV produces about 20 times more electricity than energy crops per hectare. By slashing meat consumption huge areas of land becomes available for PV and wind turbines.
Q: Can it be an idea to grow a lot of seaweed along the coast, to use it as biogas?
And when there is enough seaweed, it can also be used for making sustainable plastic?
The amount of resources humans waste is incredible, the heat from datacenters we vent into the air instead of heating 15.000 homes from a single data center, all the garden stuff we collectively burn out back, all the oppertunities we cant use because of dumb rules and short sightnednes. A Danish farmer on bornholm years back made his own oil to fuel his tractors, he was hammered by the state because he was not a refinery.
Surely all this is a no-brainer for the Depts of Agriculture and Energy to get behind. It reduces methane in the atmosphere, increases our indigenous renewable energy production and siphons off CO2 which could be used in the food and drink industry.
Also, if beef farming isn't a viable way of life for some farmers without substantial subsidies, surely they should be incentivized to redirect their efforts to a more sustainable, profitable way of farming?
not true beef farmers do not get any farm subsidies.... We dont need government money to make money
The subsidies are for you to buy cheap food not for the farmer, amazing the amount of people that fail to grasp that.
@@kyeprice1301 "government money" is taxpayer money, and tax payer money invested in Ireland's energy independence, and for any country's, becomes well spent funds.
The transportation efficiency of an electric vehicle is greater than the efficiency of an internal combustion engine. More miles could be driven electrically than by burning biogas in a vehicle.
In other words, if biogas, for instance, is burnt to make steam for a steam generator turbine, and this produces electricity, the electricity could be used for transportation, and it has the additional benefit that if people don’t want to drive, they can use the electricity at home or on businesses.
This means that converting biogas to electricity has a greater added value than burning biogas. Burning biogas only produces heat which can then be used for one single purpose (cooking, making electricity, or driving); however, electricity can be used at the end point of use for various purposes with increasing efficiency levels (cooking, lighting, washing, manufacturing, driving, etc.).
If the gas can be compressed your argument is flawed. Batteries are limited, especially in winter.
The only reason they want us in electric cars is for total control, because THEY control the GRID, and they want us all LOCKED DOWN in their sustainable prison cities controlled by satanist naghtzee U.N. freaks.
garbage comment
Indeed, using biogas as a vehicle fuel is not efficient but for cooking it's great.
Can someone connect me to a company that is providing technology and turnkey solution for converting Energy Crops to Bio-gas?
Now we just need to put a big balloon on the tail end of each cow to capture the methane at the source. Power all the farm equipment for free.
Stupidly genius XD
Lets strap some to MOUTHS OF MSM reporters and fuel the whole planet for free.
@@alifkembaraalam2487 That was a joke.
@@uneektalent obviously, if you were being serious, you would have them wear some kind of mask.
There was an article years ago about inventing technology for that. Factory farming produces exorbitant methane and so does fracking. We have to get methane out of atmosphere. Possibly with lasers heating it up and or frequencies, possibly via drones, heating up that way.
Anyone have the design of that home anaerobic digester?
i don't think on a small scale it would work efficiently for home use in Ireland as they need much heat to produce gas. home bio degesters work great in the likes of Africa. or hotter climates. just my hours and hours of research. gud luck
www.biogasworld.com/product/anaerobic-digestion/small-scale-digester-en/small-scale-anaerobic-digester-mygug/
@@bsfbestshortfilmsonyoutube whit? the guy just made a bloody chicken stir fry from free gas made at his back door.
I fell off my chair when he said that when they purchase wood chip from America, they are sending the money to Donald Trump! LOL!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think it was a misnomer 😂 he intended to say grass for arse 😂😂😂
Can the bigger home systems not be used for gas central heating?
Can biogas be made from grass alone?
Precision injecting is infinitely more preferable. With slurry spraying and aside from the obvious environmental issues, everyone for miles around has to endure the horrid smell
If you ‘’harvest grass for gas’’ then you have import animal feed to make up for the loss of Grass feed. Would be far better to grow Algae in Photo Bio Reactors(PBR) would use a fraction of the land, and use waste water to feed the Algae, cleaning it in the process! Then plant food forests on the land instead of using animals!
i swear to god i hate Transition Year online classes.
The problem is the cost of natural gas, even when brought in by LNG tanker ships is lower than biogas.
Taking a wider view of the socio-economic and environmental impact - and the EU subsidies - the biogas may actually be preferred.
at 2:57 did he really just say it produces 120,000 Thousand liters of gas per year? Not a chance - Maybe he meant to say ml
which is around 32gallons of gas per year - which if so - is still very useful for that size
Petroleum and LPG are produced abiotically in the earth FYI.
Over a very long time.
In Kerala, in India for cattle feed some tall kinds of grass is grown. I do not know whether growing this kind of tall grass, could yield more grass than what is being grown on these fields which appear to be very short. so the total volume of the grass grown can be increased. anyway this is my Limited knowledge. I do not know whether it is sustainable thought?
So if you keep a cow indoors in a specially designed shed gas can be trapped in the roof and burnt in an engine to produce electricity giving you carbon free beef. If every cow can produce energy for one car that some amount of energy
Yes but your keeping a cow in terrible conditions
@@eanna3781 I fundamental disagree the person that mind any anamel is the key to it's happiness . Some farmers open a gate a a cow follows them into a milking parlor with a rub from the farmer. Other farmer has to drive cows into a parlor and gets a kick from the cow because the farmer has created cruel and un caring environment.
@@CALOCALKY I may have misunderstood; did you mean that the cow would be kept in the shed constantly, or only for certain periods of time?
@@eanna3781 Depends on how green you are . Me personally I prefer the tradishnial way of only for the winter. But if you want to stop emissions then all the time
@@CALOCALKY no, I thought you were suggesting keeping the cow in there full time. Collecting the gas during winter time is actually fairly clever.
Instead of putting all those food wastes directly into the digesters feed them to the pigs and then put the pig wastes into the digesters. Same with grass and cows.
You would think so… but I found out that if you work from the raw grass [as opposed to the predigested version… manure] you get considerably more gas by comparison. I know… that seems counterintuitive at first but think of it this way, the cows have extracted a fair amount of the available “energy” [available in the grass] if they eat it first before it goes to the gas reactor…. It’s just in a much more “prepared” state as manure. So use both together.
But if you are eating the meat anyway… well, then you are also gaining value from that grass just in a different way. Oh and [completely] “Grass fed” beef [and done organically] is arguably good for you [contrary to all the “red meat hysteria, propaganda” ].
Cows do not eat grains and when they do, the fats they produce are bad for us to eat [so THEN, red meat is not so good for you] BUT when cows eat only what they should, [grasses] the fats are full of Omega 3’s [like fish oil]….hmmm , go figure?
Would be much more efficient and much Greener to use Algae grown in Photo Bio Reactors(PBR) 40x more Bio mass is produced per Acre than the next best Bio mass crop. Also the CO2 emitted from Gas generator(s) can be fed back into the PBR’s closing the CO2 loop, and if atmospheric CO2 was also used in the PBR it would become Carbon Negative!
You are correct, but you’re kinda missing the point. Grass is what they have plenty of and the infrastructure [already in place] to handle it. Algae would be much more effective but they don’t have the infrastructure to harvest it let alone grow it…. And the point was also to help the cattle farmers at the same time. A two for one proposition [at a minimum]?
Why use grass? Wait a little bit longer; feed the animals; get milk, meat, eggs, cheese, and butter, and use the manure to make biogas.
Timing in life is everything.
Yep
Because farmers are surviving on EU subsidies and still not making a good living and because livestock farming is a high carbon cycle as opposed to eating a healthier low carbon plant based diet.
5:00 Me thinks Ire lyn doesn't care for their pizza
Not just Stockholm.
To the farmers that only get 2 cent per kw hour, hook that power up to bitcoin mining farms. You generate your own electricity and electricity is a huge operation expense to bitcoin mining. You could basically mine bitcoin free of charge (apart from the price of the miners)
I would be worried that this could incentivise further land clearing and deforestation.
The anthropomorphic atmospheric greenhouse effect is a honk honk clown world politically motivated theory, but the rest is great.
That comment that the woodchips will come from America and the money will go to Donald Trump was really pretty prejudiced. Oh boy! I got a big laugh and just shook my head.
I agree! I guess TDS is not exclusive to the USA…. And I wouldn’t have used your word,”prejudiced” I would use the word,”ignorant”!! It is Americans [albeit a select few?] are receiving that money directly… NOT Trump
As an American I support every country's energy sovereignty and though he was using pandering language a bit, I support his mindset to want his country to be energy self sufficient.
Government and logic sadly does not work.
Tell that farmer he doesnt know how the economy works if he thinks the money is been sent to Donald Trump?
I KNOW! LOL… TDS is everywhere! What an ignoramus.
Your politicizing this video causes more divisions rather than cooperation. Doing great harm to your credibility.
In what way is this politicised? Who's credibility, Duncans or RTE?
No he didn't adults don't care except that he gave Trump some negative attention he craves
Stop trumping up things out of nothing
Interesting apart from the bullshit on methane from cattle (pardon the pun). Firstly methane from livestock is cyclical. Secondly, that nonsense about the methane from one cow vs the family car has long since been debunked. Thirdly, cattle slurry (from housed livestock) is a good feedstock for an AD plant so you can produce food & electricity.
It's all designed to keep the average man down.
Slurry..... You mean watered down shit.
Happy pear guy just talking nonsense
Wind and solar energy keep dropping in price every year. They are the safest and cheapest way to generate electricity.
All transportation is going electric. Electric cars, electric trucks, electric buses, electric garden tools, electric boats.
Everything is going electric.
You mean Electrick
And as demand for batteries increases so do prices
Gas can be turn to electricity.
Emission targets are nonsense. Ireland is barely industrialised compared to other countries and is only responsible for a tiny amount of greenhouse gases.
Yes “Emission Targets” are BS! Regardless of “climate change” beliefs or unbeliefs … For all the screaming and fear mongering going on…mankind is powerless to do anything about ”climate change” [collectively] on any account. The Whole thing is ridiculous as it has always been! [Again wether climate change is reality or fiction aside].
So, what Ireland lacks in “industry” it more than makes up for, in its meat and dairy industries. Cows produce enormous amounts of methane [oddly, released more from their “front sides”, than their backsides as “burps” ] and methane is orders of magnitudes more of a “greenhouse gas” than CO2 is, by a long shot.
So this is why Europe is going after Ireland and penalizing them… “Meat is BAD”…. [that’s sarcasm, if you can’t tell?]
But what about the north American plains prior to its discovery by the Europeans ? It was said that Buffalo herds where so massive it took over a week for a Hurd of them to pass you if you where camped out on the plains? Arguably in numbers higher than our present population?? Hundreds of millions of buffalo.
The point? What is a buffalo, but a BIG wild cow? And what did they eat? And what did they produce? Do the math.
I went to the dump when I was there and shocked that they went through everything so almost nothing was wasted
I applaud people who find a way to be free of the global dependent system. Being energy independent is the corner stone to being free and independent. In the end that will be a bigger problem for the people measuring your cow's farts than climate change.
And they're already complaining about minute traces of GHG in natural gas. When the cows are gone you'll be the next reason for CC, no matter how safe and clean you make it.
Methane is very dangerous for atmosphere but if scientists can capture it and burn it off in atmosphere...That frees countries up to ferment sewage/waste into methane, then convert that methanol and stop fracking/ drilling for oil..