Archive for Author: peakhill_admin

Testing the MULAG 500 Motorway verge harvester

Managing the soft verge landscape around the motorway network presents opportunities as well as challenges to the bodies responsible for maintenance. Any vegetation management produces biomass that has hitherto presented disposal issues and consequentially such operations have been kept to a minimum. Over the years minimal management has allowed...

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Anaerobic Digestion can help develop climate change resilience

The 2017 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has just highlighted a worrying increase in the risk posed to many of the priorities of the government’s National Adaptation programme because “opportunities for modest, timely intervention to avoid long term problems are being overlooked”. The...

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Biomass from road verges and other non-farmed landscapes helps to reduce food versus fuel debate

‘Overly dry weather’ to prompt hefty drop in world grains harvest – IGC “Overly dry weather” has left the world on track for its steepest drop in grains output in at least a decade, the International Grains Council said, flagging “particular concerns” over supplies of high-quality wheat. ...

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Resisting the fires of climate change

Smoke and flames rise from a fire in the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split on July 18, 2017 – AFP Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2017/07/18/fires-rage-on-adriatic-coast/#UuH4sx2OSsFCasb8.99 https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/jun/18/portugal-wildfires-in-pictures#img-12 So far this summer Spain has experienced a record breaking 47C whilst drought across the wider Mediterranean...

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Verge Biomass wins international award

Peakhill Associates Ltd’s leading role in demonstrating the potential for verge biomass as a significant feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion was recognised at the 2017 ADBA World Biogas EXPO. Peakhill Associates was short listed in the International Research Category alongside entries from Germany and Spain. The black-tie awards dinner...

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