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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>G’day All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>To comment on the “gas” aspect – if you
compost the waste you release CO2 anyway (probably more that in AD, as the
aerobic process is faster) so why not use the methane on the way through to CO2?
If the process is not kept aerobic (and it takes a fair amount of energy to
achieve aeration!) you are releasing methane anyway and methane is 23 times
worse as a greenhouse gas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I do have reservations about the “European”
situation of feeding silage to digesters (instead of to animals) and importing
meat from elsewhere – it would be interesting to see a system analysis. I
am sure subsidies have skewed the economics and hence the energy balances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I have had correspondence about </span><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Clostridium botulinum </span></i></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> previously
but I suspect that, like many things, it is really only a problem when “the
system” (in this case the soil) becomes overloaded – otherwise how
has the human race survived to this point and not been wiped out a long time
ago?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Happy digesting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>HOOROO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>Mr. Paul Harris, Room S116b, Waite Main Building Faculty of
Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond SA
5064 Ph : +61 8 8303 7880
Fax : +61 8 8303 4386 <a
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