The potential of bio gas

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For every misery that man brings upon himself there is embedded in nature a naturally selected answer which may cost the minimum provided there is some reasonable human effort. But man in his pride, lethargy and disinterest may choose the route of expensive choices jeopardising the one and only home humans possess; this earth. Fossil fuel has been likened by some ecologists to the ravaging and scooping out the bowels of mother-nature to sell it to the highest bidder. Transformed as energy it pollutes the earth and keeps some nations as ‘energy slaves’ chained to the pit of the earth and its core based resources, available to a select few portions of the earth.

In comparison there are renewable energy options that return to nature what originated from nature; just as man must return to the soil and serve at least the purpose of being useful as manure.

Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from the creatures of the earth; whether plant or human.

Bio gas can be produced by agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a renewable energy source that could put garbage to meaningful use. The overall bio gas mechanism provides both gas as well as being a soil nourisher where the processed raw materials can be used as food for the soil.

Two years ago the Harmony page published a suggestion by engineer Ranjit Seneviratne to innovate old barrels into giant food waste portable ‘blenders’ that could be rolled from house to house to collect food waste to be used to nurture the soil as well as used as bio gas units.

Something like this innovation used as part of our garbage collection mechanism could have saved us the billions we paid to a foreign country last year for ‘organic fertiliser.’

The Harmony page is currently researching the diverse efforts made by many persons to innovate the use of bio gas as a solution to both the garbage problem and as manure, as well as the gas needed for cooking purposes. What we have found so far is that the bio gas invention and entrepreneurship as well as public awareness on it has much potential to be encouraged further.

We have identified schools and businesses which run on bio gas as well as a host of bio gas innovators and will be publishing their narratives.

Amidst the abomination of us paying ridiculously high amounts for energy sourced from far flung nations using money our country does not have, it is basic common sense for all of us to make it our personal mission to research as much as we can about alternative renewable energy options so that despite a lack of policy initiative by the employees of the people – politicians – citizens will be able to take a lead in transforming our nation at this crucial time.