{"id":18932,"date":"2015-10-05T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18932"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:32:58","slug":"the-portable-food-waste-to-energy-plant-the-horse-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-portable-food-waste-to-energy-plant-the-horse-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portable Food Waste To Energy Plant: The HORSE [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2015\/09\/organic-waste-diversion-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished\/\">Just over a month ago<\/a>, I took a look at the argument that a landfill augmented with technology for capturing biogas may be a better alternative for organic wastes than separate pick up and composting\/<a href=\"http:\/\/greenbuildingelements.com\/2014\/07\/25\/uk-grocery-store-sainsburys-first-leave-grid-obtaining-power-anaerobic-digestion-scrap-food\/\">anaerobic digestion<\/a>. I&#8217;m still not totally convinced by this argument (especially when, as a commenter pointed out, the value of the compost created is taken into account). A new technology (or, technically, a new take on an older technology &#8211; the anaerobic digester) that just came across my radar could make such arguments irrelevant: <a href=\"http:\/\/impactbioenergy.com\/horse-ad25\/\">the HORSE<\/a>, or &#8220;High-solids Organic-waste Recycling System with Electrical Output&#8221; system.\u00a0This on-site organic waste to energy plant eliminates the need to transport materials to convert them to energy and fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a machine designed for single homes or businesses: the HORSE&#8217;s capacity works for small communities, larger institutions, or businesses that create a high volume of organic waste (think popular restaurants). According to Impact Bioenergy, the company that&#8217;s created the HORSE (and is running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1889855568\/food-waste-to-energy-converter\">a crowdfunding campaign<\/a> for it):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It will consume 25 tons per year of food scraps, beverages, fat, and paper products. It can create 5,400 gallons per year of liquid fertilizer + up to 37 MW-hrs of raw energy. As renewable gas that\u2019s 125 Million BTU per year (4.3 MW-hrs of this energy is electrical output). The system also has accessory valves for BBQ grills, fire pits, lights, and ovens. How cool is that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Very cool, I&#8217;d say! The HORSE is still in its prototype phase: the $30,000 Impact Bioenergy is trying to raise will fund demonstration versions of the machine (hopefully, two of them).<\/p>\n<p>While the HORSE costs just over $43,000, the eventual commercial version might be a good investment for the right sized off-grid community &#8211; the combination of energy and organic fertilizer seems ideal for these kinds of settings. Take a look at the Kickstarter project video above, and then let us know what you think. And if you&#8217;d like to contribute to the cause, don&#8217;t wait around &#8211; this project only has a few more days left to hit its funding goal.<\/p>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/clean-technology\/horse-converts-food-waste-fertilizer-and-energy.html\">Treehugger<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Featured photo credit: Screen capture from &#8220;FOOD WASTE TO ENERGY CONVERTER&#8221; Kickstarter project video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s Impact Bioenergy has created the HORSE, a portable organic waste to energy plant, for on-site recycling of food waste into energy and fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":18933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4065,5317,1300,8579,8580,4521,6233,464,7179],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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