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Eng Rodrigo Wayland and Eng Silveste Ruiz. Cactus, Mexico, 800-1080 tonnes of biomass yield per
hectare per year.
Early
studies year 1984 at the Universidad
de Chile (Contreras and Toha)
discovered by accident the nopal fermented in anaerobic conditions
produces gas volumes significantly.
In
2000, Mr. Rodrigo Wayland (food engineer) prepares his thesis and finds
this information which applies in the treatment of waste from the insect
Carmine cochineal feeds on the wise of the prickly and which gets the
carmine red dye. Thus the first biogas plant is built with prickly
worldwide to produce electrical energy.
Various
plants are built in the next decade until 2010 made first exploration in
Mexico country in which the nopal is represented in its homeland, the
flag symbol.
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