Rickreall
By April 2007, about 500 homes in the Willamette Valley will be
powered by manure from the Rickreall Dairy. Cow manure will be
converted into methane gas, compost and peat moss with a
“digester program” jointly run by dairy co-owners
Gus Wybenga and Louie Kazemir and Real Energy, an alternative energy
systems provider in Napa, Calif. The $4 million project,
supplemented by about $2.5 million from Energy Trust, has been
in progress for the last five years. “I was always
intrigued with the idea,” Kazemir says.
