Dynamo winner says: “The Muckbuster is the future of energy, turning waste in to power!”
After being part of the first placed team at Dynamo enterprise boot camp 2012, http://www.gew.org.uk/events/dynamo_bootcamp, the prize was a work experience placement at SEaB Energy, producers of the MUCKBUSTER and the SEaB MB400 anaerobic digesting units. It was a glimpse into the future of renewable energy where our waste gets converted back into energy in a financially and environmentally beneficial solution, and the unit even powers itself!
These units take natural waste and break it down in to biogas, which can then produce electricity and heat. The by-products are liquid fertiliser and compost of a quality high enough for human crops, turning your waste into a variety of crucial products. With each unit capable of taking up to 2.5 tonnes of waste per day, and packaged inside a standard shipping container, the small size and ultra portability of the units makes them incredibly versatile.
“At the University of Southampton, http://www.southampton.ac.uk/, I have been heavily involved in Enactus, http://enactus.org/, a social enterprise society for students with over 60,000 members worldwide,” Jon Akass, part of the Dynamo winning team, goes on to say. “Each participating University creates a variety of projects to empower the people that we are reaching out to, and at Southampton we have been voted the number one team in the UK for two years running, and placed in the semi finals at the World tournament this year. The SEaB Energy units are exactly what we have been looking for to take us to the next level with our farming project based in rural Sierra Leone.”
Deploying a MUCKBUSTER unit to rural communities provides them with a self generating supply of power. The communities can place all of their organic waste, including their own personal waste, in to the unit and produce their own power, using the waste to fertilise their crops to increase their yield and save money on buying commercial fertiliser. Additional they can be moved around with a standard lorry or truck at short notice, so can be taken to disaster sites for emergency power and be set up and ready to use in a matters of hours.
MUCKBUSTER is the future of remote power generation in many parts of the world. Natural resources are running out and polluting the environment at a scary rate, whilst the World continues to demand more power. Micro energy production can start to relieve a lot of the strain. It is never too late to start diverting the energy being dumped into landfill sites. It is only a matter of time before this reuse of waste becomes standard practice in every country.
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