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Nov. 26th, 2019 10:53 pmI love this website: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx
It shows the current source of electricity in the entire state of California:
Check out that giant chunk of solar during the day:
Basically 60% of California is powered by solar during the day.
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HomeBioGas looks pretty cool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebiogas/the-new-homebiogas-generation-clean-fuel-for-the-future/
It's basically an anaerobic composting setup where you dump in your food waste, and then there's a pipe that connects the methane output to a small stove, so that you can cook more food with the gas generated from the decomposition of your food. There's a separate valve where you can collect liquid fertilizer to grow more food with. This is methane that would have gone into the atmosphere anyway, except now I'd be capturing it and using it.
It takes some space (4'x7', basically the size of a twin mattress) and works the best in heat (although they're working on ways to keep it warm in the winter), but this is the sort of thing that gives me hope for the future. Before I stumbled across the kickstarter, I didn't even think such a thing as a biogas stove could exist, and now I can imagine a future where I cook with biogas for the majority of the year, and where the electrical grid is 80% solar. (Yes, that would mean less electricity at night, but so many things in my life can run on battery power, it feels doable.)
Anyway, I want to start envisioning a future that is kind to the planet and feels doable.
It shows the current source of electricity in the entire state of California:
Check out that giant chunk of solar during the day:
Basically 60% of California is powered by solar during the day.
----
HomeBioGas looks pretty cool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebiogas/the-new-homebiogas-generation-clean-fuel-for-the-future/
It's basically an anaerobic composting setup where you dump in your food waste, and then there's a pipe that connects the methane output to a small stove, so that you can cook more food with the gas generated from the decomposition of your food. There's a separate valve where you can collect liquid fertilizer to grow more food with. This is methane that would have gone into the atmosphere anyway, except now I'd be capturing it and using it.
It takes some space (4'x7', basically the size of a twin mattress) and works the best in heat (although they're working on ways to keep it warm in the winter), but this is the sort of thing that gives me hope for the future. Before I stumbled across the kickstarter, I didn't even think such a thing as a biogas stove could exist, and now I can imagine a future where I cook with biogas for the majority of the year, and where the electrical grid is 80% solar. (Yes, that would mean less electricity at night, but so many things in my life can run on battery power, it feels doable.)
Anyway, I want to start envisioning a future that is kind to the planet and feels doable.
