Kurtis Baute | Tall Grass Biomass for Biogas (Music Video of my MSc) @ScopeofScience | Uploaded August 2014 | Updated October 2024, 9 minutes ago.
This is the music video of my MSc thesis, and my submission to the EURAXESS Science Slam competition (update: turns out I won the North American division [!!!], so I'll be going to Europe in the spring! I'm excited, if that wasn't already evident from all the exclamation marks..). My name is Kurtis Baute, and I'm doing environmental science research through the University of Guelph. Feel free to share and subscribe, if that's what you'd like to do!
YouTube: youtube.com/ScopeofScience
Facebook: facebook.com/scopeofscience
Twitter: twitter.com/kurtisbaute
Blog: scopeofscience.com
Filmed at the Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus. For those of you who have been asking, I shot all of this with just me and a non-judgemental tripod.
Subscribe: youtube.com/ScopeofScience
Twitter: twitter.com/kurtisbaute
Website: ScopeofScience.com
Lyrics:
A swamp monster much taller than a moose
Invaded North America
And now it’s on the loose
It cant move or bite
But puts up quite a fight
A different kind of blight
It’s a grass...
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
Biogas is a renewable fuel, let me explain:
To make biogas
Microbes degrade
All kinds of biomass
And methane is made
It can make a fire
Be used as a fuel
Like farts that you can hire
Though as a sorta rule
We just call it biogas
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
If we could mix this grass
With a bunch of poo
It might make biogas
And that’d be the clue
But When is best to harvest?
Is it summer or fall?
Which would be the smartest?
Will it make any gas at all?
How does it compare
With other biomass crops?
We’ll collect them with a square
See what comes out on top
We’ll test it in a bottle
And if all goes well
We’ll kick up the throttle
And capture the smell
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
For the sake of the cattail
Can we harvest this reed?
Put it into a bale
And use it to feed
A biogas machine
Where it’ll break down
Make energy that’s green
And turn it back around
Into a fertilizer
To help grow food
I’ll ask my advisor
We’ll get it all reviewed!
And it’ll be tall grass biomass for biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
Tall grass biomass for making biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
If this works on the whole
Then reed could be chopped
It’d give us some control
Maybe the spread could be stopped.
Tall grass biomass for making biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
This is the music video of my MSc thesis, and my submission to the EURAXESS Science Slam competition (update: turns out I won the North American division [!!!], so I'll be going to Europe in the spring! I'm excited, if that wasn't already evident from all the exclamation marks..). My name is Kurtis Baute, and I'm doing environmental science research through the University of Guelph. Feel free to share and subscribe, if that's what you'd like to do!
YouTube: youtube.com/ScopeofScience
Facebook: facebook.com/scopeofscience
Twitter: twitter.com/kurtisbaute
Blog: scopeofscience.com
Filmed at the Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus. For those of you who have been asking, I shot all of this with just me and a non-judgemental tripod.
Subscribe: youtube.com/ScopeofScience
Twitter: twitter.com/kurtisbaute
Website: ScopeofScience.com
Lyrics:
A swamp monster much taller than a moose
Invaded North America
And now it’s on the loose
It cant move or bite
But puts up quite a fight
A different kind of blight
It’s a grass...
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
Biogas is a renewable fuel, let me explain:
To make biogas
Microbes degrade
All kinds of biomass
And methane is made
It can make a fire
Be used as a fuel
Like farts that you can hire
Though as a sorta rule
We just call it biogas
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
If we could mix this grass
With a bunch of poo
It might make biogas
And that’d be the clue
But When is best to harvest?
Is it summer or fall?
Which would be the smartest?
Will it make any gas at all?
How does it compare
With other biomass crops?
We’ll collect them with a square
See what comes out on top
We’ll test it in a bottle
And if all goes well
We’ll kick up the throttle
And capture the smell
The Common Reed
What a mighty weed
Look at these fields
They have such high yields
Can we turn you into power through
A machine that devours you
Take this tall grass
And make some biogas?
For the sake of the cattail
Can we harvest this reed?
Put it into a bale
And use it to feed
A biogas machine
Where it’ll break down
Make energy that’s green
And turn it back around
Into a fertilizer
To help grow food
I’ll ask my advisor
We’ll get it all reviewed!
And it’ll be tall grass biomass for biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
Tall grass biomass for making biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
If this works on the whole
Then reed could be chopped
It’d give us some control
Maybe the spread could be stopped.
Tall grass biomass for making biogas
(grass biomass for biogas)
