NSL on Rural Delivery - TVNZ Interview
Ian and Malcolm were interviewed by Rural Delivery, a TVNZ Saturday morning presentation.
Rural Delivery TV Interview
Rural Delivery TV Interview
How I Made It: Martin Dix, Founder of Current Cost
09/03/09 23:12 Filed in: Electricity
From The Sunday Times
March 8, 2009
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article5853325.ece
Light bulb showed homeowners how to save electricity
Rachel Bridge
IF 10 people were asked to guess how much it costs to power a 100 watt light bulb left on for a year, the chances are they would all come up with different answers. It was questions such as these that inspired Martin Dix to create a monitor that records how much electricity a household uses — and what it costs. Read More...
March 8, 2009
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article5853325.ece
Light bulb showed homeowners how to save electricity
Rachel Bridge
IF 10 people were asked to guess how much it costs to power a 100 watt light bulb left on for a year, the chances are they would all come up with different answers. It was questions such as these that inspired Martin Dix to create a monitor that records how much electricity a household uses — and what it costs. Read More...
Effluent to Energy (Radio NZ Country Life Interview with Ian)
Canterbury based electrical power engineer, Ian Bywater has developed an effluent-to-energy system for dairy units. (duration: 14′31″)
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Scott Base 2 International Ventures - Beachhead in Canada
Recent Meeting with International Delegates
Today we had an interesting visit from the Neil and Gillian from Scott Base 2 International Ventures. Natural Systems Ltd is being examined for its potential to add value to the Canadian Agritechnology economy. Canada has got some pretty good stuff happening around the "Tech Triangle". Read More...
Today we had an interesting visit from the Neil and Gillian from Scott Base 2 International Ventures. Natural Systems Ltd is being examined for its potential to add value to the Canadian Agritechnology economy. Canada has got some pretty good stuff happening around the "Tech Triangle". Read More...
Landcorp - Research and Development
25/11/08 15:11 Filed in: Landcorp | BioGenCool
...Devoting available resources for research and development to those areas which give the greatest economic advantage and which are not generally being investigated elsewhere in the agricultural community eg biogencool methane digester... Read More...
Canterbury Resource Management Awards 2008
...BioGenCool energy from dairy waste system is the winner of the EECA Special Award for Energy Efficiency, Conservation and Renewable Energy.
The project aims are the generation of energy using cow manure, greater energy self-sufficiency on-farm and conversion of cow manure to fertiliser. Judges said BioGenCool is a highly creative technology using a systems approach to take diary waste and convert it to useful on-farm resources. The project is bringing together different technologies to create an integrated system within a dairy farm... Read More...
The project aims are the generation of energy using cow manure, greater energy self-sufficiency on-farm and conversion of cow manure to fertiliser. Judges said BioGenCool is a highly creative technology using a systems approach to take diary waste and convert it to useful on-farm resources. The project is bringing together different technologies to create an integrated system within a dairy farm... Read More...
Offshore Firms Eye NZ Dairy Power from Gas
28/10/08 19:02 Filed in: Biogas | Electricity
by Malcolm Mountfort , 28/10/2008,
(c) 2008 Rural News Group, www.ruralnews.co.nz
A Christchurch company is sparking international interest in its BioGen system for energy recovery from dairy waste.
The system captures methane and carbon dioxide from dairyshed and feedpad effluent to fire hot water boilers and, if economic, to generate electricity. Read More...
(c) 2008 Rural News Group, www.ruralnews.co.nz
A Christchurch company is sparking international interest in its BioGen system for energy recovery from dairy waste.
The system captures methane and carbon dioxide from dairyshed and feedpad effluent to fire hot water boilers and, if economic, to generate electricity. Read More...
Finding Power in Effluent
By TIM CRONSHAW - The Press | Friday, 29 August 2008
A dairying system that is turning effluent into power and fertiliser in Canterbury is expected to revolutionise the way farmers treat cow muck.
Its investors have set up a pilot plant at a Landcorp Farming dairy farm in Eyrewell that is extracting methane and carbon dioxide from effluent with biodigester technology, and using it as fuel in a co-generation plant to make electricity. Read More...
A dairying system that is turning effluent into power and fertiliser in Canterbury is expected to revolutionise the way farmers treat cow muck.
Its investors have set up a pilot plant at a Landcorp Farming dairy farm in Eyrewell that is extracting methane and carbon dioxide from effluent with biodigester technology, and using it as fuel in a co-generation plant to make electricity. Read More...
Lighting up with cow-power
18/08/08 21:45 Filed in: Biogas | BioGenCool
By Angela Gregory (www.NZHerald.co.nz)
Power generated from cow dung has been identified as one way New Zealand could make billions from an emissions trading scheme.
The work of a Christchurch company in using biomass for electricity generation is offered as an example of a business opportunity in a report issued this morning as a curtain-raiser to a climate change conference in Auckland.
The 4th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference will be attended tomorrow morning by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, Kevin Rudd and Helen Clark, who will give their views on climate change.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has also agreed to participate in the conference by making a video address.
More than 80 expert speakers from around the world will explore current climate change issues of relevance to business, such as implementing emissions trading and investments.
At the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development's "clean billions" breakfast at SkyCity today, a report for the Tindall Foundation will be issued in support of Stephen Tindall chairing the climate change leadership forum, which advises ministers on emissions trading.
The report says businesses will be expected to go beyond "carbon neutral" to become "carbon negative" .
It says many New Zealand firms are behind those in other countries in measuring the potential effects of pricing carbon and preparing plans to reduce it.
But it softens the blow by adding that opportunities are available for businesses and the economy which actively embrace emissions trading and make efforts to cut emissions, improve products and reduce emissions costs.
The report says businesses could make billions from new technology investments stimulated by the proposed emissions trading scheme.
Some of the main opportunities are included in biomass-like opportunities for some farmers to generate electricity from cow manure methane.
Natural Systems is already running a pilot project on a Landcorp dairy farm in North Canterbury.
Technical director Ian Bywater said a farmer with 850 cows (with feedpad) could save up to $30,000 a year in electricity costs.
The work of a Christchurch company in using biomass for electricity generation is offered as an example of a business opportunity in a report issued this morning as a curtain-raiser to a climate change conference in Auckland.
The 4th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference will be attended tomorrow morning by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, Kevin Rudd and Helen Clark, who will give their views on climate change.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has also agreed to participate in the conference by making a video address.
More than 80 expert speakers from around the world will explore current climate change issues of relevance to business, such as implementing emissions trading and investments.
At the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development's "clean billions" breakfast at SkyCity today, a report for the Tindall Foundation will be issued in support of Stephen Tindall chairing the climate change leadership forum, which advises ministers on emissions trading.
The report says businesses will be expected to go beyond "carbon neutral" to become "carbon negative" .
It says many New Zealand firms are behind those in other countries in measuring the potential effects of pricing carbon and preparing plans to reduce it.
But it softens the blow by adding that opportunities are available for businesses and the economy which actively embrace emissions trading and make efforts to cut emissions, improve products and reduce emissions costs.
The report says businesses could make billions from new technology investments stimulated by the proposed emissions trading scheme.
Some of the main opportunities are included in biomass-like opportunities for some farmers to generate electricity from cow manure methane.
Natural Systems is already running a pilot project on a Landcorp dairy farm in North Canterbury.
Technical director Ian Bywater said a farmer with 850 cows (with feedpad) could save up to $30,000 a year in electricity costs.
Affluent Effluent
30/04/08 19:10 Filed in: BioGenCool | Biogas
Extract from Environment Canterbury, Living Here, April 2008.
A novel way of recovering energy on dairy farms is helping the environment. BioGenCool, installed as a pilot unit on a Landcorp Farming dairy unit at Eyrewell, North Canterbury, not only produces electricity from cow effluent but also produces biogas, ice to rapidly cool each day’s milk, and a more easily applied pasture fertiliser. Read More...
A novel way of recovering energy on dairy farms is helping the environment. BioGenCool, installed as a pilot unit on a Landcorp Farming dairy unit at Eyrewell, North Canterbury, not only produces electricity from cow effluent but also produces biogas, ice to rapidly cool each day’s milk, and a more easily applied pasture fertiliser. Read More...