Out of all the energy we need, electricity is possibly the most important to us. If as Ontario urbanites we don't have gas, we take a train or a bus, but turn off our electricity, the X-BOX ceases to function, Computer and Internet are dead and we just might freeze to death in winter. Fortunately our last complete blackout was only during summer. August 2003 almost brought Toronto to its knees with only [if I remember correctly] 24 hours of water left in the towers and not a free electron in the wires.

Our industrial and post industrial urban societies were, are and will stay functional only for as long as reliable, dependable and predictable electricity is available. Oddly enough, we produce most of this electricity by burning up sources a lot older than our grandparents grandparents and can't put the resources [back] in place fast enough for there to be some for our grandchildren – never mind their grandchildren.

Currently all of the primary ingredients required to fuel our generators were “produced” by the earth over very long periods of time – eons, are typically found below ground and brought to the surface by perforating, drilling, mining, pumping, etc. These crude materials are refined and subsequently destroyed, typically by combustion or incineration, to generate electricity, producing a Carbon Dioxide surplus in the atmosphere, which according to our climate change specialists, helps global warming along nicely.[We did have coral reefs in Ontario once already – about 400 million years ago. They can be viewed at the Ministry of Natural Resources Tobermory station.]

Electrical gensets generally run with efficiencies ranging between 18 and 54 percent. This means that only 18 to 54 percent of the energy contained in the fuel comes out as electricity. - The balance of energy is usually 'lost' – and typically radiated into the environment in the form of heat.

Developers and operators of electricity generator facilities are now [finally] looking at co-generation and C.H.P. gensets that reach efficiencies of 90 percent and more.

AS far as renewable energy development and production is concerned, this opens up whole new other possibilities because we are working with and inside real - time [not across eons] natural biological processes, which if combined correctly allow us to achieve sum efficiencies in excess of 100 percent by making use of synergistic processes.

Synergistic agricultural bio energy systems will provide highly cost effective distributed electricity generation combined with fuel, feed and food production. Agriculture will be able to not only provide food and feed, but also fuel and power our urban cities.

Synergistic approaches to renewables [energy] will always yield more than the imple sum of their parts when we start to combine biogas, which is dispatch capable, with other renewable sources such as wind and solar to produce predictable balanced rural generating capacities.

Thanks to a grass roots initiative started almost 4 years ago – to fully harness manure potentials at a family farm – with significant support and contributions from all levels of government, the first such Canadian facility is being built in North Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.