Green Options » bourbon http://greenoptions.com/tag/bourbon Posts tagged 'bourbon' Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Distillery Recycles Waste to Create Methane-Rich Biogas http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/02/distillery-recycles-waste-to-create-methane-rich-biogas/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/02/distillery-recycles-waste-to-create-methane-rich-biogas/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:31 +0000 Carol Gulyas http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/02/distillery-recycles-waste-to-create-methane-rich-biogas/ Renewable Energy World reports that Ecovation will create energy from distillery waste at the Maker’s Mark distillery in Kentucky. Ecovation, acquired by Ecolab in February, specializes in generating green energy from organic wastes created by distilleries and wineries, and other businesses using organic inputs, from paper mills to cheesemakers. Their website is full of cheese-related puns, as in The Whey to Renewable Energy.” To quote from the Renewable Energy World article:

“Maker’s Mark’s new facility will anaerobically treat the liquid portion of the whole stillage and process waters produced during bourbon-making, generating methane-rich biogas, a renewable energy source, that will offset 165 MMBtu, or 15 - 30%, of the facility’s natural gas consumption.”

Ecovation is also working with Simi Winery in Sonoma County, to help lighten the burden on publicly-owned treatment facilities by using an ecologically sound method of pre-treating wastewater. The company won a 2007 Environmental Excellence Award from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for its dairy waste stream management solution for Breyers Yogurt Co.

Image Credit: Maker’s Mark

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/02/distillery-recycles-waste-to-create-methane-rich-biogas/feed/ Tangled Up In Green: Sobering Effects of Corn Prices http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/27/tangled-up-in-green-sobering-effects-of-corn-prices/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/27/tangled-up-in-green-sobering-effects-of-corn-prices/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:16:00 +0000 Adam Bowman http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/27/tangled-up-in-green-sobering-effects-of-corn-prices/ corn_just_a_name_thingie_.jpgAs I start to stockpile bourbon (it’s made from at least 50% corn) as an investment strategy, I wonder why we are doing this to ourselves.

You practically can’t read a newspaper or news magazine without someone condemning the use of corn as an alternative fuel source these days. And who wouldn’t. The ethanol boom has driven the price of corn up, which in turn makes everything that uses corn go up in price. Corn is in a lot of products.

Why are we investing so much in corn-based fuel?

I think the answer is fear. Fear of rising oil prices. Fear of global warming. Fear of our dependency on foreign oil.

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