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Sounds like they need a digester. My big stop hauls their own milk eight hours round trip with methane powered trucks and most of the electricity on farm is methane powered. I think all of the farm trucks(30?) are methane powered.
 
cow pollinater":l2pc748p said:
Sounds like they need a digester. My big stop hauls their own milk eight hours round trip with methane powered trucks and most of the electricity on farm is methane powered. I think all of the farm trucks(30?) are methane powered.
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My imagination is running wild over what the collection system looks like.
 
slick4591":2eqw8kfo said:
cow pollinater":2eqw8kfo said:
Sounds like they need a digester. My big stop hauls their own milk eight hours round trip with methane powered trucks and most of the electricity on farm is methane powered. I think all of the farm trucks(30?) are methane powered.
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My imagination is running wild over what the collection system looks like.
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It's actually really simple. It's mostly just a big tarp over the manure ponds. The bed maintenance crew just goes through once a day and rakes all the manure out of the freestalls where the flush sweeps it out to the ponds. The methane rises and gets caught by the tarp and the pressure created is enough to pump the gas up to the front of the dairy where the trucks are fueled.
 
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cow pollinater":13e5bmqu said:
slick4591":13e5bmqu said:
cow pollinater":13e5bmqu said:
Sounds like they need a digester. My big stop hauls their own milk eight hours round trip with methane powered trucks and most of the electricity on farm is methane powered. I think all of the farm trucks(30?) are methane powered.
Click to expand...

My imagination is running wild over what the collection system looks like.
Click to expand...

It's actually really simple. It's mostly just a big tarp over the manure ponds. The bed maintenance crew just goes through once a day and rakes all the manure out of the freestalls where the flush sweeps it out to the ponds. The methane rises and gets caught by the tarp and the pressure created is enough to pump the gas up to the front of the dairy where the trucks are fueled.
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That's much better than all the red and yellow hoses I was visualizing. :lol:
 
slick4591":2ya4815y said:
My imagination is running wild over what the collection system looks like.
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Hoarde's Dairyman magazine published an article, a couple of years ago, highlighting a couple of farms that had a similar set-up of using the methane produced on the farm to power the farm. Pretty cool really and not as complex/complicated as you might think.

There's also an outfit, I read about a while back, in MN that sets up heating systems for houses on dairy farms using the methane as the fuel.

Katherine
 

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