WHILE California is best known for Hollywood and Silicon Valley, its intensive livestock sector is significant and has turned itself into a bioenergy powerhouse in recent years.
America’s most populated state has managed to pull together the agriculture industry, energy companies and governments to make manure a viable energy source – primarily powering trucks. The first move towards biogas was made by former governor and Hollywood muscle-man Arnold Schwarznegger.
The scheme is about incentivising energy companies and producers to convert…