Come February next year if you live on the East Rand you will be able to run your car on biogas derived from waste. Novo Energy, an energy and technology company, is building a dispensing station for demonstration purposes on a landfill site near OR Tambo International airport.
Novo will offer motorists a free conversion so that their cars can run on biogas. It estimates fuel savings of between 15% and 25%. Using gas to power vehicles is not new but this is understood to be a first for South Africa, although it's on a small scale.
"We are at the early stages of trying to get our vision to the appropriate people at municipal, provincial and even national level," says John Stavers, the Novo's general manager. "Our vision is to have government use the gas from landfills or sewage works rather than waste it."
Biogas is any methane-rich gas and can be produced by several means, such as decomposing organic matter in landfills or municipal waste and manure. Landfill gas is captured by drilling wells into the methane-rich waste, collecting the gas with pipes and processing it.
Read more : http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-12-07-billionrand-biogas-saving-for-the-taking
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