Meet the farm in Italy making car fuel from cow poo

Producing vitality and automotive gas from livestock waste: it sounds too good to be true, however that is what is occurring on this farm close to Piacenza, in Italy's Emilia Romagna area.

The farm boasts 600 cows and produces giant portions of milk. However as well as, the family-run enterprise has diversified into new areas. 

"Over the previous few years, we now have began a mission that's permitting us to provide renewable vitality and to have an precise round financial system," says proprietor Nicoletta Cella.

"I imply, we are able to produce vitality from animal excrement and livestock waste, together with agricultural by-products."

Behind the farm, a selected construction extracts bio-methane from animal waste and transports it on to the entrance, the place prospects wait on the pump to get low cost fuel.

The transportation of this renewable pure fuel or RNG is a direct one, this fuel is carried from the producer to the patron, via only a few metres of pipe.

"We produce bio-sustainable gas from our livestock waste and the concept of us, an agricultural firm, having the ability to enter it into the transport system is extraordinarily gratifying on a private stage," stated Cella

The fuel station opened final February, a few weeks earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine and the following surge within the prices of vitality and gas.

Along with tackling the vitality disaster, the initiative offers an answer to managing methane fuel emissions.

In keeping with the European Fee, they massively contribute to local weather change and the livestock sector is a significant contributor.

This greenhouse fuel has extra heat-trapping qualities than carbon dioxide and traps 84 instances extra warmth over 20 years than carbon dioxide.

Final 12 months, a coalition of nations signed the primary world dedication to chop methane emissions by a minimum of 30% beneath 2020 ranges by 2030 on the UN local weather convention COP26 in Glasgow.

The Frequent Agricultural Coverage (CAP) can play an necessary position as nicely which has the potential to raised help higher manure administration and biogas manufacturing.

For now, this Italian farm has discovered a sustainable technique to struggle the disaster, from subject to pump.