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Am I missing something or is this actually bad? > Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle
by 08-15 5y ago
Am I missing something or is this actually bad?
> Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle feed.
This sounds as if the leftovers used to be sold as cattle feed, but now they are turned into fuel. If correct, that's horrible! Valuable protein is destroyed in the process. That protein will now have to come from somewhere else, and that's plants fertilized with ammonia, which is in turn made from natural gas.
Destroying protein is not green! Never! Fueling the very same trucks with natural gas is as easy and more efficient, because it skips the intermediate steps.
> The Scottish whisky industry hopes to hit carbon net-zero targets by 2040.
I'm curious how they plan to do this while burning peat in the production process. My guess is by creative accounting.
- mschuster91 5y agoYep, you're missing this part: > However, through anaerobic digestion – where bacteria break down organic matter, producing biogas – the distillery can also use the liquid waste from the process to make fuel and eventually recycle all of its waste products this way. Basically, they have solid waste which was and is going to be used for cattle feed, and they have liquid waste which they're now converting to bio-gas by feeding it to bacteria.
- 08-15 5y agoOops, looks like I overlooked an "also". But I still can't think of a protein poor and energy rich waste stream in whisky making.