More alternative energy than you can beer
By jmara
Friday, December 8th, 2006 at 2:49 pm in General.
Photo: Kelly Nigro 
We of the Energy Blog feel it is our duty to beseech, nay, to command each and every one of you conservationists reading this to drink all the Sierra Nevada beer you can hold. Turns out that Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is going to buy the four 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell power plants that have been providing electricity and heat to the brewery’s production processes through a power purchase agreement. Fuel cells produce base load electricity giving commercial and industrial customers greater control over their power generation economics, reliability and emissions. Does that rock or what? So charge down to your local store and load up on green beer. (Note photo on left of actual Sierra Nevada brewing plant by Kelly Nigro, posted on flickr.)
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July 16th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
J, I just thought I’d add HOW they get their fuel cells to work: They use beer! Or at least the dregs left over from the brewing process. They put in a digester that makes methane, purify the methane and pipe it into the fuel cells.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
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June 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 am
This is just another reason why we need to move as quickly as possible, (much as in the same manner as Kennedy’s challenge to get a man on the moon) to alternative energy vehicles.
I know, I know, we will have to build more electrical plants. B.S!!!
I know of little old engineers that power their cars on solar energy right out of their homes. Don’t tell me we aren’t smart enough!!!