Processing highly variable feedstocks, each with their own makeup of sugars, fats, and other organic compounds is a complex job. Researchers at the University of Iowa are turning to automation to address associated challenges.
As key decision makers contemplate the best pathway en route to these targets, they are paying attention to methane, documented as 80 times more harmful to the environment than CO2 and making up 40 percent of the state’s total greenhouse gas footprint. But with all its aspirations, New York is missing opportunities to capture and use one of the world’s top methane sources organic waste charges Energy Vision.
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Critics say that air pollutants and waste discharged from farms and from already existing farm-based biodigesters receive scant federal and state oversight.
Methane is the second-most widely emitted greenhouse gas, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Lowering emissions, which are primarily caused by landfills, energy production and burning and agricultural production, has been a topic of discussion in global government, partially to the credit of Marcelo Mena-Carrasco. Mena-Carrasco leads the Global Methane Hub, an international alliance.