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Manure to Energy Resources

Local Research: The Hawksbill Cabin blog in Page County has studied the Fibrowatt power plant proposal and many options at multiple scales, http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2011/03/fibrowatt-more-questions-than-answers.html

Pyrolysis: BioEnergy Planet has bought the intellectual property rights to the Virginia Tech pyrolysis prototype on a Rockingham County farm near Dayton. http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/BEP_Pyrolyzer.pdf  

Combustion: An Irish company, BioMass Heating Solutions LTD, http://www.biomass.ie/y  has gasification units operating in Europe.

Gasification: A Shenandoah Valley gasification project will likely be based on CoalTec’s work in Wardensville, West Virignia.  http://www.coaltecenergy.com/poultrylitterproject.html

USDA Report:  ARS Research Turns Poultry Waste into Toxin-grabbing Char, http://www.ars.usda.gov/IS/AR/archive/jul05/char0705.htm

Incineration:  The Fibrowatt company serves on the state’s Shenandoah Valley Poultry Litter to Energy advisory group committee,  http://www.fibrowattusa.com/

A North Carolina conservation group defeated a Fibrowatt power plant proposal in Surry County, Environmental impacts/Fibrowatt Large Litter to Energy Power Plant.

http://www.yadkinriverkeeper.org/sites/default/files/Facts about Fribrowatt 2.1.pdf