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The conflict of growing crops for biomass or food.
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<blockquote data-quote="thesilentone" data-source="post: 8153655" data-attributes="member: 6194"><p>In the UK we were faced with a major challenge. Much of our dated energy production plants were coming to the end of their life, and little in the pipeline to replace them.</p><p></p><p>Kyoto committed us to a renewables target over the coming years, and renewables was not only the way, but also helped bridge the gap between our out of date generation and new nuclear.</p><p></p><p>Nuclear is our future for base load electricity, however nuclear does not produce gas. So, we either phase it out, or ensure a free and competitive marketplace and offer both.</p><p></p><p>Developing fossil fuel gas fields is off the agenda (maybe the agenda could change). So gas imports and some renewable's is the way to go at present.</p><p></p><p>Having lived through intervention and set-aside without any food shortages, I have no issue with any land being used for renewables as nothing is forever.</p><p></p><p>The days for crop only AD plants is over in the UK, unless they are very, very big and are injecting into the gas grid, and are in it for the long game.</p><p></p><p>However, as said earlier, the waste market still has lot's of legs for growth. The waste could be food waste, commercial and industrial, but also agricultural.</p><p></p><p>There are millions of tons of slurry, manure, milk, abattoir, ++++ waste, all related to the Agricultural Food Chain, we need to think much more holistically, and start to consider very large community plants taking hundreds of thousands of tons, with hundreds of stake holders which can really make a difference.</p><p></p><p>All the nutrient can then be returned to the land, and help see a much reduced demand for chemical based fert.</p><p></p><p>The opportunity is there now, the one major obstacle is our attitude to federate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thesilentone, post: 8153655, member: 6194"] In the UK we were faced with a major challenge. Much of our dated energy production plants were coming to the end of their life, and little in the pipeline to replace them. Kyoto committed us to a renewables target over the coming years, and renewables was not only the way, but also helped bridge the gap between our out of date generation and new nuclear. Nuclear is our future for base load electricity, however nuclear does not produce gas. So, we either phase it out, or ensure a free and competitive marketplace and offer both. Developing fossil fuel gas fields is off the agenda (maybe the agenda could change). So gas imports and some renewable's is the way to go at present. Having lived through intervention and set-aside without any food shortages, I have no issue with any land being used for renewables as nothing is forever. The days for crop only AD plants is over in the UK, unless they are very, very big and are injecting into the gas grid, and are in it for the long game. However, as said earlier, the waste market still has lot's of legs for growth. The waste could be food waste, commercial and industrial, but also agricultural. There are millions of tons of slurry, manure, milk, abattoir, ++++ waste, all related to the Agricultural Food Chain, we need to think much more holistically, and start to consider very large community plants taking hundreds of thousands of tons, with hundreds of stake holders which can really make a difference. All the nutrient can then be returned to the land, and help see a much reduced demand for chemical based fert. The opportunity is there now, the one major obstacle is our attitude to federate. [/QUOTE]
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