Biogas microgrids could reduce odors and outages for hog farm neighbors

Energy News Network: Tom Butler admits he was naïve back in 1995, when he stopped growing corn, tobacco, and other crops and began raising 8,000 hogs on his farm outside Lillington, North Carolina.

Neighbors – many he’d known all his life – quickly began to complain about the stench from open-air manure pits wafting into their cars or seeping into homes.

“That was our first incentive to do better,” he recalled.

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