My work is to purify wastewater using algae in a miniature sewage treatment plant, scaled to home-farm-ranch size, using the algae to remove nutrients gains biodiesel, and if no toxins-poisons-antibiotics are in the water the pressed algae cakes are a quality fertilizer. This means for a small dairy the barn washdown can be recycled and a ton of biodiesel is gained to run the milk processing and field equipment, heat the barn and likely have leftovers to sell to neighbors. Being based on the small operation is what needs to happen, top down, centralized solutions to water-fuel-food don't exist, chemical agriculture fails the sustainability requirement and these huge farms pull groundwater and aquifers where in the USA it's getting tight on those sources, what that means is when they collapse at these massive levels of water removal the whole system of crops fails ... not brilliant for a plan for the future.
Published by Tom Mallard, Living Systems, Industrial-Architectural Design
My work is to purify wastewater using algae in a miniature sewage treatment plant, scaled to home-farm-ranch size, using the algae to remove nutrients gains biodiesel, and if no toxins-poisons-antibiotics are in the water the pressed algae cakes are a quality fertilizer.
This means for a small dairy the barn washdown can be recycled and a ton of biodiesel is gained to run the milk processing and field equipment, heat the barn and likely have leftovers to sell to neighbors.
Being based on the small operation is what needs to happen, top down, centralized solutions to water-fuel-food don't exist, chemical agriculture fails the sustainability requirement and these huge farms pull groundwater and aquifers where in the USA it's getting tight on those sources, what that means is when they collapse at these massive levels of water removal the whole system of crops fails ... not brilliant for a plan for the future.
This means for a small dairy the barn washdown can be recycled and a ton of biodiesel is gained to run the milk processing and field equipment, heat the barn and likely have leftovers to sell to neighbors.
Being based on the small operation is what needs to happen, top down, centralized solutions to water-fuel-food don't exist, chemical agriculture fails the sustainability requirement and these huge farms pull groundwater and aquifers where in the USA it's getting tight on those sources, what that means is when they collapse at these massive levels of water removal the whole system of crops fails ... not brilliant for a plan for the future.