Often enough, projects are developed for one single purpose and if we are lucky a secondary benefit arises. It’s easy enough to see that the INs of one process often are the OUTs of another process. This becomes obvious with agricultural and animal wastes that provide the underlying input for bioreactors that produce bio-energy.
Those reactors – in turn – produce other products that benefit agriculture such as very clean water recovered from biomass as well as organic fertilizer. But there is more. Bio-reactors also produce a lot of green CO2 that is very expensive to procure in a concentrated form. Why would you want that? CO2 is plant food and increases plant growth massively in greenhouses. Having it straight from the bio-fermenter not only takes care of a potential nuisance but also brings massive growth benefits.
But there is even more. Bringing wind and solar energy into the fold not only gives us access to renewable electricity but also provides shade and reduces wind damage to the soil and crops. And as a cherry on top, pisciculture allows us to store excess electricity for the time when this is needed. All while cultivating fish that swims in salt water and when the fish sludge from the fish processing factory goes into the fermenter, it recuperates fresh water.
See how it all works together.
