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 is supposed to be news? by the+eric+conspiracy · 2003-03-09 09:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Give me a break. The Chinese were generating electricity from biogas 100,000 years ago!
Washington DC by ericdano · 2003-03-09 09:26 · Score: 1, Redundant

Imagine what one of these could do in the Nation's Capitol. We'd have enough power to do the whole planet a couple of times over ;-)

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What a shitty idea! by Skatters · 2003-03-09 09:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Re:Inefficient by Ledskof · 2003-03-09 10:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ok, so you are another person who doesn't have a clue what I'm saying.

So here it is in what I hope is easier English for you to understand: Turn manure into power, good. More cows, bad.

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That headline should've read .... by bizitch · 2003-03-09 10:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

Cow Manure --> Electricity --> Profit!

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in a perfect world by kraksmoka · 2003-03-09 10:13 · Score: 0, Redundant

we could recycle the bull crap from our politicians. after all, there's an undending "renewable resource".

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Re:veganism by Grishnakh · 2003-03-09 10:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

We'd have a bunch of sickly, malnourished infants. Did you read about the case recently of the woman convicted of child abuse because her vegan diet harmed her unborn fetus?

Veganism is a stupid lifestyle. Humans are omnivores, and are not designed to only eat vegetables. It only works at all with adults because they don't have the nutritional requirements of children. The worst part is how stupid vegans try to spread their unscientific, religious propaganda around like those annoying evangelical christians.

If you think beef is unhealthy, fine. Eat seafood.