Methane accounts for almost half of French agriculture’s emissions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEAUMONTOIS-EN-PERIGORD, France – A French farmer steps away from his barn and fills up a tractor with fuel made from the manure of his cows, an attempt to put their climate-damaging methane to good use.
A dark green filling station with a pump and bank card payment terminal is connected to the facilities – but it isn’t diesel that comes out of the nozzle. The farm’s owner, Mr Bertrand Guerin, hopes the truck he uses to collect milk will also soon be filling up at his site. His concern is that market giants such as Engie and TotalEnergies, which are themselves looking to diversify away from fossil fuels, decide to move into and dominate the market for methane derived from agriculture.In the vast barn a Montbeliarde cow ambles over to the milking machine.
She calmly steps over the automatic scraper that removes the manure of the farm’s hundred cows from the barn without giving it a thought.Methane has a much greater climate-warming power than carbon dioxide, and accounts for a huge share of the climate impact from livestock farming. Every day 40 tonnes of organic material – two-thirds manure and one-third food waste – are stuffed into the methane dome, where it is fermented at 38 deg C.
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