GERMANY/SLOVAKIA: CREATING ENERGY FROM BEER WASTE
July 1st, 2009
By Leah Germain
Making beer is a hot smelly process, as any home brewer will testify. But what is to be done with the steaming left-over grains from a brew: turn it into energy and biogas of course - say German and Slovakian researchers.
A breakthrough energy project from EU research programme EUREKA is harnessing the power of spent grain from the production of beer to cut costs for brewers around the world. German and Slovakian developers have taken the several thousand tonnes of waste left over from the production of beer and transferred it into renewable ...
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