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Closed-loop systems that utilize waste products as fertilizer or fuel. This will include large and small scale composting operations, methane digesters on ranches to convert manure to biogas that produces electricity, and methane capture at local landfills to collect methane and produce electricity.
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Comments (2)
Burning forest woody biomass for energy is not clean (highly toxic), not carbon neutral (emits more carbon than burning coal) and not renewable (it takes decades for trees that are cut down to grow back to the same size as when they were cut; if at all). So please let's not even think of including forest woody biomass in this section, or risk creating a "hungry monster" that, once the infrastructure is set up, will demand constant feeding. Crops for energy makes no sense either as agricultural land should be used to grow food for people. While these are not mentioned here, they're red flags to be aware of as there is currently lots of pressure and government incentives to move in this direction.
Most of the methane emission from ruminants are in the form of burps and farts. How do you plan to capture that? "90 to 95 percent of the methane released by cows comes out of their mouths" source: https://ideas.ted.com/methane-isnt-just-cow-farts-its-also-cow-burps-and-other-weird-facts-you-didnt-know-about-this-potent-greenhouse-gas/
If the plan is to have free-range grazing of animals, how do you collect all the poop?
Also, what of the nitrous oxide (300 times more potent than CO2 as a GHG) emissions from animal ag?
Thanks for sharing. Do you have a specific suggestion for how to improve the vision statement?
Perhaps a small semantic start would be to say "This may include" instead of "This will include", because as you point out something like a methane digester may not be applicable in many situations.