Ms King, who is Meridian Energy's national agribusiness manager, has recently returned from a five-month Nuffield Farming Scholarship trip overseas, during which she visited 21 countries.
She was the first person from the energy sector to win a Nuffield scholarship and her aim was to research whether gas and electricity could be generated as a solution to effluent issues.
Enthused from her time away, Ms King said being able to solve the problem of effluent waste would be ''fantastic''.
While unable to reveal details about the proposed solution at this stage, the plan was to get trials under way on a 1000-cow unit in Canterbury.
She already has the support of high-profile businessman Sir Stephen Tindall, who had heard about the project, contacted her and asked what he could do to help, while she has had ongoing support from Meridian Energy. Backing from farmers and the industry was going to be required to make it work on a national scale, she said.
Even if it ''doesn't work 100%'' and she only got halfway, then there would be ''some other genius'' who would hopefully help get it to fruition, she said.
Ms King, who took the journey of sharemilking through to farm ownership before joining the corporate world, which previously included working for Fonterra, described the Nuffield trip as one of the ''greatest experiences'' of her life.
Anyone ever given the opportunity for such a scholarship should ''grasp it with both hands and go for it''.
She visited a diverse range of countries - Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, England, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Vietnam, Australia, India, Qatar, Thailand and France - and saw a ''heck of a lot'' of quality technology that the New Zealand agricultural industry could benefit from.
She met some ''fantastic'' farmers, while the quality of New Zealand's apples, sheep meat and dairy industry was often discussed, she said.
The Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust and Lincoln University are combining their efforts to improve leadership capability within the rural and primary sectors in New Zealand.
The two organisations have agreed to establish a rural leadership consortium to manage two leadership programmes that have operated in New Zealand since the late 1970s.
The two programmes will continue to operate distinctly and maintain their existing brands and alumni networks, but will be managed by a shared full-time general manager.
The Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme is owned and administered by Lincoln University and the Nuffield Farming Scholarships are owned and administered by the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust.
More than 650 New Zealand alumni have completed the Kellogg programme and there are about 150 Nuffield New Zealand alumni.