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20-09-09, 12:05 PM
news.bbc.co.uk - BBC News - 20-Sep-09
Pig muck to be turned into power (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8265274.stm)
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The farm produces more than 70,000 piglets every year
A Scottish farm has secured a grant to harness the power of pig muck by turning it into electricity.
The company in East Lothian was given more than £500,000 to convert slurry and vegetable waste into energy.
The Ruchlaw Produce Company in Dunbar, which employs 45 people, is the first farm in south east Scotland to use the technology.
The waste is fed into an "anaerobic digester" to create methane and carbon dioxide.
This will then be pumped into a biogas plant to generate electricity and hot water for heating.
Read more (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8265274.stm)
Pig muck to be turned into power (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8265274.stm)
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46408000/jpg/_46408286_000689760-1.jpg
The farm produces more than 70,000 piglets every year
A Scottish farm has secured a grant to harness the power of pig muck by turning it into electricity.
The company in East Lothian was given more than £500,000 to convert slurry and vegetable waste into energy.
The Ruchlaw Produce Company in Dunbar, which employs 45 people, is the first farm in south east Scotland to use the technology.
The waste is fed into an "anaerobic digester" to create methane and carbon dioxide.
This will then be pumped into a biogas plant to generate electricity and hot water for heating.
Read more (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8265274.stm)