Source: Catherine Clabby, NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 7/24/18


Good news about hog waste can be scarce in this swine-rich state. But success at converting swine waste into usable renewable energy seems to be gaining steam. For the first time, this year a bioenergy project in hog-packed Duplin County injected natural gas harvested from hog farms into a commercial pipeline. Duke University now wants to use North Carolina hog-sourced biofuel, rather than natural gas, to fuel its campus steam plants.

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