I don't know about you, but I don't think you could ever talk me into using energy made from poop.California cows start passing gas to the grid
Tue Mar 4, 2008 6:30pm EST
RIVERDALE, California (Reuters) - Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new energy.
On a dairy farm in the Golden State's agricultural heartland, utility PG&E Corp began on Tuesday producing natural gas derived from manure, in what it hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy.
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Poop Energy
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Poop Energy
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Why? Methane is a greenhouse gas. Burning it creates other greenhouse gases, but at least you get some energy out of it. The cows are going to keep on pooping whether you turn that light on or not.
It's better to break ground and head into the wind than to break wind and head into the ground.
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Re: Poop Energy
1. What Snowgoose said.I don't know about you, but I don't think you could ever talk me into using energy made from poop.
2. Ever eat organic vegetables? How do you think that they are fertilized?
Say, what's that mountain goat doing up here in the mist?
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Re: Poop Energy
Good point. But I live under the illusion I can wash the poop off my food. This makes me think of a vein of sewage running into my house. I'm happy with it leaving.
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