Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System

odyaws writes "Central Vermont Public Service has launched Cow Power, a system by which power users can opt to buy 25, 50, or 100% of their electricity from dairy farms that run generators on methane obtained from cow manure. Cow Power costs only 4 cents/kWh more than market price, so a household like mine would only pay $5-6/month more at 100% usage. The big question now is whether Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will use power generated from the manure of cows treated with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone."

Comments

Re:let's marginalize alternative power

[humankind]

Unlike global warming, there isn't even any debate in the oil industry, much less the scientific world.

There is no debate on the global warming issue either. Don't you have something better to do, like lick Karl Rove's ass instead of posting here?

Re:for that price...

[throbi]

The same people who buy hybrids or biodiesel.

Re:What it actually costs

[Doc Ruby]

I don't think the Iraq war was done for my benefit. What makes you think I do? I'm not confused by the price hike. Put a loser oilman in front of a tyrannical warmonger oilman in the White House, everyone pays a lot more for oil and wars.

The people who contributed money and votes to Bush/Cheney got some things they wanted: lots of killing and some rich corporations. Of course, they were promised cheap oil and safety, as well as actual (tax refund) checks in the mail, but I know that only a few fools actually believed it.

None of that reality means I have to like it.

Re:let's marginalize alternative power

[minion]

Just like it sorted out Katrina?
 
I can't wait for us to have a black president, so you damn assholes who keep blaming our government for being racist can't keep playing that card every damn time something hurts the black population.