What do Homemade Solar Energy and Beer have in Common?

However, the point I'd like to make is that SABMiller, one of the world's leading brewers, announced that by 2020 it will reduce fossil fuel emissions from its beers by 50% per liter of beer produced. The company aims to achieve this through greater energy efficiency and by utilizing renewable energy sources such as brewing by-products and agricultural waste.

Furthermore, Budweiser has more than 6 acres of ground-mounted photovoltaic solar arrays up and running at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fairfield, California. The system, which has a capacity of almost 1.2 MW, generates the equivalent about 3 percent of the brewery's electricity needs. The company is considering whether to expand the solar installation and diversify the facility's on-site generation of renewable energy by putting in a wind turbine.

The solar deal was one of two major efficiency moves made by the brewery last year and part of a broader eco-friendly strategy adopted companywide by Anheuser-Busch.

The facility also installed a Bio-Energy Recovery System to generate more than 15 percent of the brewery's fuel needs by capturing the nutrients in brewing wastewater for conversion into biogas. Use of the renewable fuel enables the brewery to decrease its use of natural gas.

Now, if some of the world's biggest brewers want to utilize renewable energy to reduce fossil fuel emissions, shouldn't we support them by installing homemade solar energy systems for our homes and kill two birds with one stone (not a very appropriate idiom given the green topic of this discussion, but nevertheless...):

• Use homemade solar energy to keep our beer cold
• Install our own homemade solar energy systems to help reduce fossil fuel emissions

It might not be such a good idea to take the beers up on the roof with you when you do the installation; rather have a few after you've finished the job!

Click here to find out how you can install your very own homemade solar energy system, and still have time and energy left for a few beers after the job is done.

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