Ad plants , you can’t make it up
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hutchy143211
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- Location
- E. Yorkshire
Probably because its not connected to the national gas grid and that its not possible or economically viable to pressurise the gas as required for injection into the grid.
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
Is it that it's producing too much or that it isn't of the correct quality to feed into the grid?
A gas to grid AD plant that I know of has to add propane to it to feed it into the grid. Sometimes (or more often occasionally) they flare it off if it isn't up to scratch.
Was told he was over producing so had to burn off the excess
- Location
- Hereford
Mmmmm AD plants !!!
Carting Maize 35 miles to save the environment?
Carting Maize 35 miles to save the environment?
- Location
- Scotland
If e doesn't have storage, what is the alternative?
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
I recon they would be better grassing it down and letting someone from Hereford have it for round bales ......Mmmmm AD plants !!!
Carting Maize 35 miles to save the environment?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Err, we don’t have AD plants . . .
what a sh#tf#ck of an idea
who the hell ever thought that was a good idea ? Sounds like an environmental disaster
what a sh#tf#ck of an idea
who the hell ever thought that was a good idea ? Sounds like an environmental disaster
Your probably right but do people that have paid taxes to subsidise such building of these plants that have had massive hikes in gas prices actually know this is happening still when there is no gas ?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
ONLY in the UK would you have AD plants & be able to call them “green” or “environmental” 
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
And probably every one of them showing complete disregard for the lawMmmmm AD plants !!!
Carting Maize 35 miles to save the environment?
- Location
- North Hampshire
German concept ....ONLY in the UK would you have AD plants & be able to call them “green” or “environmental”
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
The idea is quite ludicrous, but its not just in the UK, there's plenty more in other parts of Western Europe. It all dates back around 20 years when in order to meet "green" targets Govt's were throwing money at all forms of renewable energy, some were efficient. some were hopelessly inefficient. One of the most notorious was a biomass heating grant in Northern Ireland that was so generous it paid more than the entire cost of fuel. As a result buildings were opening their windows to let heat out in order to keep the boilers running.ONLY in the UK would you have AD plants & be able to call them “green” or “environmental”
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- Out in the Sticks
Nothing wrong with AD plants utilising food/ag waste to create a usable energy source.ONLY in the UK would you have AD plants & be able to call them “green” or “environmental”
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
Subsidising it, makes it inefficient
That one did bring about the downfall of a government though...
Wind your neck in.ONLY in the UK would you have AD plants & be able to call them “green” or “environmental”
Anywhere else they’d be a disaster . . .
AD as a process is a great way of turning unwanted biomass (waste food, dead animals, sewerage, muck, slurry) into usable heat and energy, as @sjt01's setup admirably demonstrates. The economics and regulation are often all to cock and give undesirable outcomes (like growing crops and hauling digestate for miles).
This is by no means a situation exclusive to the UK.
I'm not sure what your problem is with the UK Roy. When I joined the forum a few years ago I really appreciated and valued your input - and challenge - from a very different environment and culture. More and more nowadays I feel like you just come here to insult my nation as a primary objective (rather than merely as a byproduct of constructively challenging our accepted norms). I lament the change in tone.
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- Location
- Hereford
- Location
- Hampshire
Had this conversation last week. Contractor chopping rye down to 1/4 inch for a digester. All the trailers, pit men etc, would it not be more efficient to use the diesel to make electricity?
- Location
- Hereford
Dare I mention..... should they he running on red diesel..... after a its an energy business not an agricultural one .....isn't it?
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