{"id":887,"date":"2016-01-05T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:43:39","slug":"new-power-plant-french-alps-generates-power-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/new-power-plant-french-alps-generates-power-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"New Power Plant in the French Alps Generates Power From Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France is no stranger to energy production as the French are currently the world leader when it comes to nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Now, renewable energy company Valbio is turning to a new source of energy production, generating power from cheese at a power plant in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, generating power from cheese is a very French thing to do, but don&#8217;t act like it&#8217;s not an awesome idea!<\/p>\n<p>In order to generate energy, Valbio uses whey, a byproduct of cheese production, which the company receives from Beaufort cheese made in the same region.<\/p>\n<p>The cheese plant is located in the town of Albertville and combines Beaufort cheese with bacteria to cause fermentation and produce a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide gasses.<\/p>\n<p>From here, gas powers an engine that heats water to 194 degrees Fahrenheit, pumping out 2.8 million kilowatt-hours of energy production per year.<\/p>\n<p>The Albertville cheese plant currently sells energy to \u00c9lectricit\u00e9 de France (EDF), the largest producer of electricity in the world, proving cheese is definitely a viable source of energy production moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is no stranger to energy production as the French are currently the world leader when it comes to nuclear power. Now, renewable energy company Valbio is turning to a new source of energy production, generating power from cheese at a power plant in the French Alps. Yes, generating power from cheese is a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[481,480,479],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}