A new heat recovery system for poultry litter in use at Cottage Hill Farm may hold some promise for energy cost control for Maryland farmers and may even reap environmental benefits.
In a nutshell, the heat recovery system takes the heat the litter generates while composting and transfers it into the chicken houses, reducing the amount of propane normally used to warm the barns.
“People look at litter like a villain, and rightly so,” said Triea Systems Inc. owner Jim O’Brien. “What we do is turn it into a hero. If you can use this instead of using propane, to do what you were once doing for 70 percent less than you were once doing it, then that stuff’s a hero.”
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This is like investing into a electric car battery company.
The difference is we've got it and we are stuck with it so why not attempt to find something meaningful and environmentally sound to do with it, 4:07. I've much rather have govt subsities going to attempting to convert this to energy than to windmills and electric cars and stuff like that. We got to figure out something to do with it.
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