Eco-fuel superior to bioethanol. "Cowcake gas" of Kanematsu saves the earth.

Eco-fuel superior to bioethanol. "Cowcake gas" of Kanematsu saves the earth.

Makoto diamond online 12 distribution per ten o'clock August 28

The dirt of the cow pie and drainage bathes in the heat glance as alternative energy of the fossil fuel such as the crude oil that ..height.. stop now.

Cry made light of as cowcake. The methane of almost the same element as the natural gas can be done by fermenting such organic waste. It is called, "Biogas", and has already shown the extension more than the bioethanol as new energy in Sweden etc.Movement for the spread is accelerating also in Japan.

It is Kanematsu of the trading company that puts the revival on an environmental field to show the desire to the practical use. This company is 11 companies such as Idemitsu Kosan in January this year, and "Biogas net Japan" is established by "Merger company" method admitted by the new company method. Kanematsu that became a representative has led the approach on making to the business.

Mere garbage of the raw material of biogas that goes out of the stock raising farmer, the sewage plant, and the garbage-disposal facilit if it says. The same biotechnology fuel differs from the bioethanol that uses a large amount of sugarcane and corn, and doesn't have worry that causes the sudden rise of cereal prices either. In addition, "Energy of two birds a Koku that can reduce exhaust of methane with effect of Global warming 21 times carbon dioxide, and connect with use decrease of fossil fuel" (Kanematsu business promotion division). Use at home etc. is expected in the future including the heat use in the factory.

It has already been proven to be improved to the quality of the city gas corresponding with the refinement device in the merger company though the low degree of the energy efficiency was a fault. The gas supply to the hamburg steak factory of restaurant "Surprise donkey" has been done based on the cowcake that went out as a stock raising farmer in Hokkaido.

"The route of reduction in costs has stood from theoretical though the compression of the total cost will be a problem when the future. "There was a reason to want to make this business succeed at any cost for Kanematsu that viewed it so.

This company that management deteriorated rapidly in the 1990's aims at "Structural reform" that reduces the business scale to 1/3 and rebuilding has been being aimed at while selling carrying out resolutely and a lot of sections by the piece. To shape to lower the signboard of "General trading company" though the result and management recovered. The difference has extended with a major general trading company that began to beat the gross profit of receiving the favor of the sudden rise of the resource price of several hundred billion yen scale though the gross profit at the period on March, 2008 recorded the highest 19 billion yen by connection for ten years in the past.

As for a potential domestic market scale, the biogas business is expected 200 billion yen or more without the bounty from the Government now alone though doesn't advance. The Kanematsu management planning room includes power ..municipality that expects it.. a lot as an energy ..cancellation.. business of the ground home of Cata , saying that "I want to bring up to the high-return business in the future and ..niche where a noteworthy level is low.. to try to recover from a setback only now though it is Fn field".

It has been decided to start the verification of the safety of the gas supply to the ordinary family with the development of a new gas cylinder that leads to the transportation cost reduction recently newly and the gas tube etc. in the merger company. The Kanematsu business promotion division｢It is important to pile up knowhow steadily now. Only might the gas that went out of the farmer and the factory likely to be sold very outside, and it to be a crack of me that constructs the entire business model like the collection, the refinement, transportation, and the supply, etc.｣It emphasizes it.

If it gets on the profitable line of business, it is scheduled that the merger company is made a company by the end of 2010. The gas that appeared from the cowcake might be near on "Former general trading company" that aims at the revival and the day when it furthermore becomes the last resort of the global environment.

(Keisuke 'Weekly diamond' editorial department Yamaguchi)