From Cornwall UK, Turning Farmyard Waste Into Pioneering Clean Energy
Future breakthroughs in renewable energy won’t save the environment – the UK must act now using existing technologies. That was the stark message from the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, speaking ahead of the international G7 conference in Cornwall earlier this year. If that is the case, and there is no reason to doubt him, the UK faces a massive challenge in locating and scaling up existing sustainable technologies to meet the country’s climate goals by 2050.
Luckily there are already some great projects underway. One example is Bennamann, a pioneering cleantech company in the farming county of Cornwall that collects fugitive methane and turns it into “better-than-zero-carbon” fuel. Bennamann captures the biogas – gases from organic matter – from farms and processes, converting it into green fuel that’s collected from farms and aggregated with fuel from other sites and sold into the energy market.