Americans React: How Irish Farmers Convert Cow Dung into Digital Gold (Bitcoin)
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In this video we react to how Irish farmers are turning cow dung and grass into a renewable energy source. This clean energy is not only being pumped into the grid, but is also being used for Bitcoin mining. This is one of the greatest sustainable energy ideas I've ever heard of.
Irish farmers raise animals, the waste from those animals is used to create clean energy, which in turn helps produce excess power for Ireland and produces extra income for the farm through crypto mining, in this case Bitcoin. If that wasn't enough, the farmer is then left with a great fertilizer. This is such an innovative farming idea, I hope this technology continues to take off.
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Thanks for reacting to my video! I'm Joe, the journalist who made that mini-documentary.
So cool to see someone experience this video for the first time. Your chuckling at the fart animation sequence made me chuckle 🤣
I made that clip a few years ago and am doing a follow-up this year with Tom. I'll try to share more clips with you!
Excellent video, 👏🏼 so I’ll be subscribing to your channel too. I try to do this so the original creator gets a benefit from reactions too.
I had no idea there were so many cows over there! 🐄🐂🐃😊
I've subscribed 😊
The farm is in armagh which is a big flaw in your video as irish environmental policy doesn't apply to him at all ,uk policy yes but irish policies
Very informative video and a great idea to tackle waste unlike the wasters we have running this country!!!
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Slurry is a mixture of dung and grass. I think you’ll find that he’s not decreasing his herd. Moving them out of one field and then mow it, on a circular basis.
One of the best things about it is, unlike the US, they're not spraying everything with chemicals!
Yeah for sure!
My understanding of this is that creating electricity this way is an alternative to getting rid of the cows. There are targets for reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture, and producing electricity in this way offsets the gases produced by the cows. It's not a case of getting rid of the cows and then becoming electricity producers instead.
I have no understanding of Bitcoin whatsoever- but just developing this type of electricity production for use on the farm and by the grid has to be a win!
This is just the sort of technological advance we need to be developing worldwide!
Hey you two! 😊
Steve I think you misunderstood.
The government wants to reduce carbon emissions by 25% right? The issue as it stands, is that with more cows than people, Ireland's main cause of emissions are down to cow farts. So the simple answer would be, reduce the number of cows... 🔪 + 🐄 = 😱
*UNLESS....*
Someone came up with an ALTERNATIVE way to fix the problem. That farmer is using cows as inspiration, he's not using their 💩. Cows eat grass and their stomachs produce methane as they digest the grass. Methane can be used to create electricity. Right?
So, the farmer has this processing machine, that replicates the way cows digest grass. Instead of fields of crops, he has fields of grass. That grass is fed into his jumbo machinery "cow" and comes out the other end of the process as methane.
By doing this, and if other farmers followed this example, they wouldn't be REDUCING emissions in a literal sense, HOWEVER, their process means they are reducing their reliance on current electricity production. Overall, by replacing the source of their electricity, they would have successfully offset their emissions, met the 25% reduction the government is pushing for, and not a cow sacrificed in the process! The more farmers hop on board, the more reduction of emissions! If they can stop using all current electricity supplies, they could cut their emissions by 50% or more.
So instead of reducing cows, or their 💩, they could instead cut their CURRENT source of electricity by being more self sufficient. It will no doubt cause financial losses to current energy suppliers, but they have a chance to also follow his example and lean away from current production and ease into this method, which if they do so, shouldn't cause much disruption if any, to their customers.
This would cut emissions further still in the long term. Oil is running out, we must get alternative energy supplies up and running now, instead of leaving it too late. All cars will be electric in Europe by 2030 I believe I read somewhere...although don't come for me people if I'm incorrect. I know I read it somewhere...🤔
So yeah, I can't explain the technical processes he was talking about, but that's the gist of it. He's built a machinery cow gut basically. And saved real cows from culling. 😁😁😁
Love you all lots! 😘😘😘 xxxxx
PS: Lindsey my love, I still don't understand Bitcoin, let alone mining it! 😳
Ireland (Republic of) NI is a part of UK, currently imports 90% of its natural gas from UK and Norway via pipelines, the remaining 10% comes from anaerobic digestion and a single gas field off the SW coast that is now almost at the end of its productive life. Electricity is produced by gas burning power stations and onshore windfarms, the now ageing hydro (1960's) are used to meet spikes in demand. The old peat burning ones being closed down, Ireland both imports and exports electricity to and from UK. An additional cable connection to NW France is in the discussion stage.
Great explanation, Tami!
When you think about it when there was no coal or electricity for thousands of years people used dried camel or elephant dung for fires like the dried out peat. Still do!
Just love how your channel goes from, Cadbury chocolate to Stately homes to cow dung, great channel Steve and Lindsay and of course Sophia..😊
haha, yeah! Ya never know what you're gonna get around here :)
Wish I was 30 years younger and I'd had this opportunity. Well done to all those involved; some really innovative thinking going on here and if it makes extra income, well, so much the better!
Another way we produce electricity where I live in Sussex is a household rubbish incinerator. We separate glass,plastic and paper in a recycling bin all the rest goes to a state of the art incinerator plant. The process eliminates greenhouse gas emissions by turning the final run off into vapour. Also it cuts down landfill by about 90%.
They're all over UK I've painted 5-6 of them in rural areas just not enough of them around to generate enough power to fuel the national grid
Hey Jane,that's so cool. There was plans to build a incinerator in my home county(Cork,Ireland)but so many protests have been had over it that i think the plans have been scraped. Just wondering was/is there any objection from locals about the incinerator? I don't think they are toxic but some people do.
@@michellekennedy4426 there were a few objections but they were overruled as the plant is on a brown field industrial area, it’s been a huge success.
@@janescott4574 That's great,I wish locals here had been more opened minded but ah well it is what it is.
Waste collection companies here in Ireland have to provide bins for compostable waste, such as food, garden and pet waste, we are charged but lower than for general waste or all recycling and plastic waste. All is on a pay by weight basis except glass, that's a flat quarterly or monthly charge along with the service charge. All recycling and all plastic apart from glass goes in the recycling bin as is sorted at the depot. All landfill sites have been closed, general waste incinerated or exported to Norway to be incinerated.
Basically the slurry pile is decomposing cow dung. This is a problem as it creates a lot of greenhouse gases as it breaks down. This slurry is usually just sprayed onto fields directly as a fertiliser. Greenhouse gas is also produced on cattle farms by sileage pile. This is grass that decomposes into food for cows for the winter. If some of this material is instead fed into an anaerobic digester it can be used to power a turbine to produce electricity for, in this case, bitcoin mining. This does reduce the amount of greenhouse gas going into the atmosphere as the only waste is fertiliser but cattle farming will always produce some greenhouse gas from cows directly.
That model works well on small to medium sized dairy farms where it is relatively easy to capture cow waste and silage (rotted grass) which go into the digester. Pampas type farms in north and south America don't lend themselves so easily to this. In UK we also use household waste to generate electricity in either digesters or thermal power stations. Our electricity is about 70% renewables and nuclear, or 56% renewables alone.
Biomass gas production is common place in the UK and Ireland, you can buy and install domestic gas production from septic tanks.
The problem is there aren't grants available for the farmers in Ireland to install anaerobic digestors. The EU wants us to install them and yet they don't provide the funds to install them.
Most farmers wouldn't be interested in the bitcoin part of it either, the bitcoin and the anaerobic digestor aren't linked
Ireland has less than 6 million people. We produce enough food for 40-50 million.
We could reduce by 80% and still be self sustained.
Ireland, what a beautiful country with such an ingenious solutions to a major problem.
For sure!
You mentioned Kerrygold butter, before the price of super thick cream increased massively in the UK I made my own butter in the food processor, it was cheaper than buying butter and took very little time and effort and tasted excellent.
Been to a local plant that does this to make bio-gas for the local bus company to fuel the buses.
It also creates gas from home food waste. Awesome.
1 BTC every 2 months is $65,000 so for the year = $390,000. That’s impressive.
Go ahead and and make me cry about my 16 bitcoin that got dumped before realising that I needed a wallet
Dang! Doesn't seem so bad then. 😂
Hi you should also look at Liverpools tidal barrage hopes.😊
Through maths I formulated that it would take aprox 466,651 Cows to produce just 1.7% of energy that a Nuclear Reactor produces.
So that is a lot of Cows and brown stuff.
Ireland is a Nuclear free country.
@@tonys1636 Really. However England gives a lot of energy to Ireland by our Nuclear Plants. 9.4 TWh in 2023 in fact.
Not just nuclear but other means to. So your welcome.
2:57 Yep. Same in wales, France, Netherlands. You should see the protests. Zu vill eat zee bugs 🐛
😂 Funny, but not funny. If I don't laugh I'll cry.
Love your videos, really enjoy you both together, you are both people of depth and consider subjects carefully. More ireland vids
I wonder if sheep a pig dung be used in the same way.
You could with pigs but sheep is much more difficult because they are more free ranging and poop all over the uplands plus they don't need hay or silage
Hi Guys , just a heads up package from myself coming your way , hopefully gets to you safe and sound . 😊
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You can still have solar in Ireland (and the UK), you need light rather than heat 😁 the UK and Ireland also has a lot of consistent wind
It's WIND power all the way!!!! Lol 😂
From Australia. The carbon emissions from cattle are increasingly been questioned as being bullshit. No worries though we'll all be able to eat .... what?
We have a digester plant near us, they feed it waste food. It stinks a bit.
The thing about the EU is they have limits on the amount of produces it can produce. Several times Ireland has been fined for producing too much food and it's the farmers that feel the pinch. The emissions limit compounds this to the point where the government has to pay farmers NOT to produce food then the farmers have to destroy alot of their animals and then they go bankrupt when the farms can't produce enough to cover their own costs.
Looks like this farm isn’t under the jurisdiction of the Irish government if it’s in Armagh? Nor in the EU any more.
Happening in Holland already for 4-5 years
It's in Northern Ireland, so therefore E.U. rules.
Brexit does apply to certain procedures due to the Anglo- Irish agreement.
Correct, the Irish government has no say in this part of Ireland.😊
They don't have to destroy animals. They do that anyway, they just have to not inseminate the cows.
@@ehughes8829 the farm is in the republic as he says its on the cusp of armagh being on the border rather than in it.
It's a great idea, regardless of global warming/climate change being BS !!
I'm a Bitcoin maxi ... I love this !! Never thought I'd see a crypto video on your channel. 😊
There's more of us around than you'd think. As someone who has been around for a while, an OG, I guess, the step change in the latest epoch has been extremely encouraging. It's reached the tipping point. Slowly, then suddenly. It's inevitable.
I've played around with it for a few years, but yeah, I never expected the topic to cross over on this channel 😂
The idea is too good these guys gonna magically disappear after this big corporations won’t have this 😂
I completely agree.. The Energy companies won't be allowing any of this.. Really sad.
Is the farmer saying they are using the grass to munch down to make the gas or the cow dung?? I missed what the farmer said!!
The Queen tried this at her Windsor estate in the UK sometime ago, but the thing blew up and they didnt replace it.
💩 💥 🤯
Probably as close to a perpetual motion machine as you're going to get
An additional win is that slurry treated in this way is less damaging to the environment. Farmers are limited in the season and weather conditions that they can spread slurry as if it runs into streams it's V toxic and illegal.
Annerobic digestion is basically whats used in sewage treatment (at least one of the stages) and makes the output much less toxic for the environment.
What I don't get is why they can't compress it and run their machinery on LPG methane.. Surely a beter use than mining bitcoin. (if possibly less profitable, not aware of current bitcoin roi)
And also why aren't sewage treatment plants capturing gasses from their digestors?
I dont know about Bitcoin, isn't that virtual money? Yet, the balance between profit and protecting the future of the planet and doing better by Mam Nature is wonderful.
On a personal note: Damn, I'm wasting my waste everytime I flush. What an absolute shitter. Now to get my thinking cap on and work out how to capitalise on my crap. Hmmm?!🤔
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Hi Steve! I love your vids and watch them all the time, you have a lovely family who are a well loved addition to your channel, you have a great sense of the ideas portrayed, great! I have to make a comment though, I think your mic volume is too loud for the vid volume. You have a very loud voice and when you just talk it’s like you are shouting and because you don’t stop the video or at least balance your output volume to make a point your viewers miss important points raised that you are reacting to. That’s it, carry I’m listening!!
Cheers Aah Kid!
Would you believe that this method of electricity generation featured way back in the film Mad Max 2. You can tell it was a long time ago just because in it Mel Gibson looks young! The only thing here I don't support is the Bitcoin mining. For me it would be much more worthwhile for the electricity generation method to be harnessed along with wind and solar generation to allow for the existing gas, oil and coal power plants to be turned off permanently.
Absolutely, genius! I do hope that this spreads around the world. Happy Sunday! Peace
This needs to be done with human waste..the street lights used to be run off the gas from the sewers in Victorian England.Someone has designed dog waste to generate power in Wales
They'd be better off mining kaspa, more blocks per day - lot lower hardware and electricity costs = greater profits
I am not convinced by the Bitcoin Mining. I would have thought maybe investing in battery packs that can supply the grid in peak demands and charging the battery packs when demand is low may be a more viable option in the longer term.
Anaerobic digesters are not new technology. Been around since the 13th century in China. As as species humans have just found a way to refine older technology for the modern world. And allegedly used for heating hot water as early as the 10th century
Cows produce alot of natural CO2 you have to take the price of beef into concideration , Farmers have be saving cow waste for years. They burn the cow waste in insinurators as the bit-coin market has now crashed its not used. As this a old video shown around 8 years ago This is nothing new Europe, We have more solar here in Europe compared to USA. The republic of Ireland is in the EU and bit coin can no longer be used in farming. Great Britian is now using large solar farms. as they no longer get the EU farming subsidies so grants to maintain their farming land no longer get paid to UK farmers after leaving the EU, Merci Jean-Marc
Bitcoin is currently $65k. Its All Time High was in March 2024 (a month ago). The video shown was made last year, not 8 years ago like you said.
Being Irish they'd be better off growing potatoes, but that's a sore subject.
Not a sore subject,we grow plenty of potatoes,in a good year over 400,000 tons of them but you know potaotoes can't be the only thing,farms need to be diverse especially if its a bad growing season.
Its not a sore subject because irish people know that people didn't starve because of potatoes there was any weight of food in the country but it was taken by our colonial overlords over to britain.Not blaming anyone alive today i must add but thats the historical truth.
@@Joseph13163 Not just colonial overlords, your fellow rich countryfolk who sold their souls to the British ruling class.
@@dylandrew6071 Such a thing did not exist since the cromwellian plantation the vast majority of landlords were of english stock who stole there land from native irish lords and besides most of them were absentee and actually living in england.Not to say they weren't irish agents but you good hardly call them rich.
@@Joseph13163 Completely missing the main point that poor Brits didn't benefit from colonialism either.
If every farm did this no need to kill the cow's, btw i haven't got a clue what bitcoin are 🤔
All is not what is seems. Cow dung is very not very good at producing methane. It take 20 cu meters of cow dung to produce 1 cu metre of methane. Whereas it takes 2 cu metre of grass to produce 1 cu metre of methane. i.e. the cows are not needed. Also burning methane produces carbon dioxide, a green house gas. While CNG (compressed natural gas) has a role to play in aircraft journeys, there are better ways of power generation i.e. wind in Ireland
You can power and heat your house, charge your car and heat your water from your septic tank or run a whole city on its sewage system. Many European towns are already doing that. However, it does not produce profits for monopolists or nuclear by products for weapons. It's a communist kind of thing. I love it.
kerrygold is a mid butter lol idk why americans think its so special. Its better than american butter sure but its just not as creamy as as a lot of our other butters and far from the only brand, in fact id say a lot of people just buy the tesco,aldi etc versions.
Looks like the scammers are at it again, such a shame these wastes of space have nothing better to do than bother decent channels, it is so easy to spot if the reply in genuinely from Steve, even for me, and with technology I can make 2 short planks look like a computer 😂, hope all are having a good weekend
Yeah, it really is a shame that a few bad apples can ruin the experience for others. Hopefully no one falls for it! I need to remember to make an announcement.
The country might look beautiful but you don't want to be walking or even driving through it at the time of year when they're spraying slurry on the fields. The smell!!! 🥴🥴🥴😀
Yeah, I can imagine. Same around where we live haha
I bet Steve farts like a bloody trooper 🎉😊
Only in our beautiful country Ireland 🇮🇪
How do Steve my cousin has got a UA-cam channel called Irish homestead they bought a farm in Ireland it's over 200 years old and they are fixing it up to live in.What they did was sold there house left there jobs and travelled around Europe in a campervan with 2 children but decided to by a farm in Ireland it's worth a watch
Sounds like something we'd really enjoy! Thought about doing that ourselves here in the US :) We'll have to check them out.
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I think I must be a bit thick. I understand the manufacture of methane from cow waste etc but what I don't understand is how this is solving environmental problems? Surely the production of electricity from methane produces CO2! Not environmentally friendly.
I don’t trust the BTC your money could up and vanish like a cows 🐄 fart in the wind 😊
Cows are carbon neutral. The CO2 is absorbed by the grass, cows release methane (less methane if grass-fed), and then the methane breaks down into CO2 again. There's an equilibrium amount of methane introduced into the atmosphere by cows but there are not perpetual emissions. Culling cows would have a small one-off effect that would do next to nothing for climate change. The Irish government is completely insane and this is a very dystopian measure.
However, hopefully this biofuel solution works well and is cost-effective. Wouldn't surprise me if the politicians dismiss it and try to force food-scarcity on the population regardless. We are living in dark times.
Lies
@@jimmyryan5880 not lies. check the facts
@@jimmyryan5880 Just stating "lies" is not helpful. You have to give a counter argument.
It is fact that all the carbon cows release comes from the atmosphere so they are carbon neutral. They only increase methane somewhat but there is a limit to the increase in methane as it breaks down to CO2.
Im getting solar panels soon.
For free 😁
They should send the meat to the UK and USA its amazing Irish meat beef I live in the UK I always buy Irish beef
They do
We export most of our beef we only consume 10% ourselves
Hey Steve and Lindsey,just wanted to confirm Steve thinking wind power does well in Ireland,it definitly does,Ireland has over 400 wind farms,42% of all electricity produced in Ireland is from renewable sources while 86% of this renewable electricity came from wind and there is plans to build more wind farms so ya wind power is a big thing here.
Solar power works very well in the British Isles, my entire homes electrical supply and heating comes from solar power, I tired wind power but it was much less reliable than solar power from a stand alone perspective, we did have a local tidal turbine electrical supply but sadly it was removed a few years ago.
It works in Ireland too.
And as from yesterday, after the Halving, the supply of new bitcoin is twice as scarce. The inflation rate in the system is now less than half the inflation rate of GBP and less than that of gold.. Forever. Contrary to popular belief Bitcoin mining actually incentivises investment in renewable energy without having to rely on tax payer funded government subsidies. None of the other cryptocurrencies even come close. It is wise to stick with Bitcoin only. There is no second best.😊
That bit coin farm is technically in Northern Ireland U.K., not Ireland! Two different countries and jurisdictions!
Who cares irish invention anyway
bmw has 140 factories around the world that causes more than cows , emissions , cobalt manufacturing for electric cars causes more emissions .
Wind Turbines cost more due to maintenance ,the blades have to be buried after so many years of use , they only last 25 years .
There are more commercial planes in the skies and over 40,000 airports ,you do not see a reduction in them ,the reason is that they are built by the military components and make billions although the Americans taxes is high the military still make billions .
It is more of what social and private companies want you to do , Does Germany reduce the factories building cars reduce emissions no , It is their bread and butter.
cobalt is on the increase but yet they cause more emissions than cows do.
This is the EU attacking farmers. It's why the Netherlands is in revolt, not to mention the French.
This isn't new watch a 1970s comedy TV show called "The Good Life". Gas from waste is not a new idea, they're just making it economical by forcing current farming to be uneconomical, and threatening its existence.
Innovation is great and it is the way we will solve the problems we have. But forcing it before innovation has occured is whats going on right now.
European farms are doing great thanks to the EU. Their business could not exist in the US or Aus. The farmers complain, feathers are ruffled, the tabloids exaggerate but in the main it turns out fine and we get good food. Don't believe the tabloids or jokes from 1970s British comedies.
@@jimmyryan5880 I'm believing the riots and miles long tractor protests, the muck sling on political buildings... The EU is trying to hide what's happening but it is shown in videos away from mainstream media.
Are you trying to tell me that the forced purchase of Netherland farmland isn't true? That the protests are fake, that France hasn't seen riots?
1st 😂
You should react to flank farm
Huge eu subsidies but take away subsidies and its not so profitable!!
Stop classing ppl from northern Ireland as irish they are brittish. To be irish yiu must be from the republic of Ireland. Plz educate yourselves.
Be aware... SCAM!!! Just saying.😢
You can thank the E U
This farm is in the UK which is not a member of the EU.
@@george-ev1dq The culling of cows is supposedly proposed by the Irish government.
@@george-ev1dq that farm is but the other contributors were from the republic.
@@Joseph13163 what other contributors?
@@george-ev1dq Not actually he said the farm is nestled on the cusp of armagh so his farm is either wholly or partially in county monaghan which is in the republic.I thought at first but every other contributor was from the south and he didn't say the farm was in armagh he said the cusp of armagh.
Seriously! we're watching this ☹ wtf next; how to go to the toilet properly, in a British bathroom...
Don't watch it then, no-one is forcing you are they!
Just saying!
@@poppletop8331 Im in my right to say something. hey, if you're ok with this, good luck to ya!
@@CybrAshley I also have a right to reply, so right back at you. 😛
@@poppletop8331 👏well, you got me there...i got no comeback🤪
LMAO OK KAREN
Using energy to mine Bitcoin is tragic. It could be used for lighting, heating, transport or manufacturing initially. The surplus could be exported or stored by melting sodium or sulphur etc until locally needed.
and this is just another reason why Veganism is wrong.
Please explain