GREEN ELECTRICITY

I watched the beginning of the new Landline season with interest this week. As usual it had some great stories and what I would call REAL news. The programme usually delves pretty deeply into a couple of topics and this week the first was power soon to be generated by using sugar cane trash which was previously burned.

There has been huge investment by Delta Electricity and the NSW Sugar Milling Co-op as well as the farmers to set up several dual purpose mills which will not only process the cane into sugar, as usual, but also stockpile the trash harvested by the farmers and when they start sending power to the grid in a few months time the two first generators mentioned will supply the electricity needs of Lismore, Casino, Ballina, Byron Bay and Murwillumbah, continuously, 24 hours a day. Other generators will join in later.

You can watch the clip on this link to the Landline article. OOps, I meant to click save, not publish last night when I wrote this because I have more to say about "green"power. But now I am off to the garden to sow seeds, glorious seeds in the cool!