A small El Paso startup company has a plan that could upend the dairy industry, making it one of the most environmentally friendly businesses on the planet.Thirteen dairies along a 6-mile stretch of Interstate 10 between El Paso and Las Cruces produce about 1.6 billion pounds of cattle manure each year. Commuters roll up their windows to block the stench.
It smells like money to Lorraine Wardy, chief executive officer of R-Qubed Energy. The company is in the first stages of building a biogas plant that will take that manure and covert it into methane to make electricity, high-grade fertilizer, compost and other material, all of which can be used or sold.
It smells like money to Lorraine Wardy, chief executive officer of R-Qubed Energy. The company is in the first stages of building a biogas plant that will take that manure and covert it into methane to make electricity, high-grade fertilizer, compost and other material, all of which can be used or sold.
"We think it's going to save us money, make us some money and reduce the environmental challenges we have to deal with every day," said Michael Weatherly, who sold his 64-acre Buena Vista 1 Dairy to R-Qubed for use as the plant site.
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