Cow Manure --> Electricity

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Posted by michael on Sunday March 9, 2003 @09:00AM from the cow-power dept.

jmtpi writes "ABCNews has a story about a dairy farm in Minnesota that uses its cow manure to generate enough electricity to power the farm plus 80 homes and create fertilizer. There's also a more detailed story."

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This story... by asramchusak · 2003-03-09 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Is a crock of shit. :)

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I smell a winner! by FrostedWheat · 2003-03-09 09:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Ahhh the sweet smell of efficency. *takes a deep breath*

*faints*
1. Re:I smell a winner! by paganizer · 2003-03-09 10:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yup, sounds like a real Cash Cow.
  
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Which just goes to prove... by mikosullivan · 2003-03-09 09:03 · Score: 3, Funny

... the power of bullshit.

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1. Re:Which just goes to prove... by ATMAvatar · 2003-03-09 09:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ... the power of bullshit.
  
  If we could round up all the politicians in DC, we could power the world.
  
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truimph the cow says... by dotgod · 2003-03-09 09:05 · Score: 4, Funny

That's a nice generator...
FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 09:14 · Score: 5, Funny

22000 gal manure per day/ 760 cows = 30 gal/cow per day

Doesn't that seem a little hi?
1. Re:Wow by Kafka_Canada · 2003-03-09 10:32 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Doesn't that seem a little hi?
  
  That strikes me as more of a big hello.
  
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Now... by Quixote · 2003-03-09 09:50 · Score: 4, Funny

If only someone could come up with a way to generate electricity from the crap that people post here....
Re:Be a patriot! by DavidBrown · 2003-03-09 09:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Remember, when you leave that cow manure alone, you are leaving it alone with Osama bin Ladin.

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Re:Methane wasted at many facilities by Typingsux · 2003-03-09 10:02 · Score: 4, Funny

You think you thought up the idea, but people already pay for each others shit.
It's called Ebay

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The real world by Filiks · 2003-03-09 10:11 · Score: 3, Funny

The cow-body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery. And over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of combustion...the humans had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields...where cow-beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it. And then I saw the fields with my own eyes...watched them liquify the dead...so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure, horrifying precision...I came to realize the the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world...built to keep us under control...in order to change a cow-being...into this. (a battery)
Indian civilization knows the value of manure. :) by Sri+Ramkrishna · 2003-03-09 10:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Bah, we Indians have been using cow manure for a variety of things for hundreds if not thousands of years. I'm not surprised that there is even more useful things we could do it. It's been a replacement for Lysol and fuel. This method is also used in India called Gorba gas. :P

They laughed at us when we told them that cows were holy. Guess, whose laughing now?!

Cow Zindabad, Cow Zindabad! :-) [trans. long life to cows]

sri
Re:a positive trend by British · 2003-03-09 11:09 · Score: 3, Funny

(4 windows down at 75mph). Similar for the household.

Soo, you have a mobile home that goes 75 mph?
technically does this shit hit the fan? by xlurker · 2003-03-09 11:46 · Score: 3, Funny

so... when the boilers burst
the shit hits the fan, eh?

and ecologically friendly PP SUVs would really be transporting a shitload of stuff...
(PP=poop propelled)

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