{"id":32,"date":"2021-04-14T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:35:00","slug":"local-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Community Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s much to think about for the future. When I think about energy production, I see it as community-based. Imagine households taking a weekly walk to drop off food waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an anaerobic digester, bacteria breaks down the food waste and releases methane as a byproduct. The methane is then captured and used as a renewable source of energy. After the digestion process, the leftover material can be composted and used as a natural fertiliser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>Locally-created energy equals less transmission loss, since it\u2019s not travelling far<\/li><li>Energy can be sold back to the grid, allowing communities to generate funding beyond the council tax and central government funding<\/li><li>Social cohesion as there\u2019s a common goal, where interests and incentives are aligned<\/li><li>A job creator, attracting new talent and up-skilling local talent<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things to think about<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>Initial investment<\/li><li>It still generates Co2 and N2o and methane as an output<\/li><li>How much power could a square mile of waste generate?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s much to think about for the future. When I think about energy production, I see it as community-based. Imagine households taking a weekly walk to drop off food waste. In an anaerobic digester, bacteria breaks down the food waste and releases methane as a byproduct. The methane is then captured and used as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}