Where can energy be obtained from? A zoo in Great Britain presents a project that can save 220 tons of CO2. In the year.
Winchester – In the future, a British zoo will not win gold from excrement, but it will generate energy.
The feces of endangered animal park residents such as Grevy’s zebra, saber antelope and Somali wild ass would be used to heat the tropical house and other large buildings, announced the Marwell Zoo in Winchester in southern England on Friday.
“Our world’s first initiative uses the power of Zoo Poo!” Wrote the zoo. “Poo” is a slang English word for “feces”. This should help to save 220 tons of CO2 annually and to become carbon neutral in 2022.
“The urgent need to reduce fossil fuel burning and keep these carbon-rich sources in the ground means we cannot act fast enough to replace the oil heaters in these buildings,” said Duncan East, the zoo’s sustainability officer. So far, 600 tons of animal droppings have been brought to compost, which has led to considerable CO2 transport costs. Hence the idea with biomass arose. The animal remains of the antelope, zebra and co. Are now collected every morning, chopped up and mixed and finally dried and pressed into briquettes.
In the tropical house, it will remain tropical and warm in the future – among other things, various birds, a two-toed sloth and monitor lizards live there. dpa
