Business View Magazine l November 2022

67 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 to the device to zoom in, zoom out, record, pan, switch on a flashlight, and so on. We used that to make site visits during Covid, besides using other common remote working tools like Zoom, Teams, and Slack.” Aside from the Covid-19 pandemic that affected multiple industries, the biogas industry has its own idiosyncratic challenges. Strehler sees two significant challenges in the biogas industry: lagging regulations and technologies that cannot (yet) process all the organic residue available. “Currently, we are using industrial organic residue like municipal, curbside organics, and agricultural waste,” he says. “For the industry to grow, the next step, currently in its infancy, is assimilating crop residues. For example, after harvesting corn, you do not leave the corn stalks on the field, but harvest that too, put it in a biogas plant, and make renewable natural gas.” “Further down the road, maybe five years down, we can tap into the forest industry and convert forestry biomass into renewable natural gas. “Once we achieve those two milestones, we may realize the potential to replace roughly half of the Canadian natural gas consumption with renewable natural gas.” CH Four Biogas is working on technologies that can take advantage of these and other opportunities in the biogas industry. “First, our research team is actively working on technology adaptations that can effectively go into crop residue processing and, later on, forestry products.” The second area CH Four Biogas is working on is a better utilization of biogas byproducts. “Biogas is about 60% methane and 40% CO2, CH FOUR B IOGAS