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Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the excuse-me-are-you-saying-moo? dept.

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."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by bcat24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That idea really stinks!

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by RsG · · Score: 4, Funny

      I call BS. This is a complete load of manure.

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    2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by thewrathoffluffy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Along. Nothing to see here.

  2. for that price... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who would want to pay more for crappy power?

  3. Cow Power web server is surviving Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Amazing that the Central Vermont Public Service web server handles a good Slashdotting better than virtually every other web server I've ever seen.

    Viva le Cow Power!

  4. This is just.... by Anoraknid+the+Sartor · · Score: 2, Funny

    bull shit....

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  5. Secret ingredient by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    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."

    So long as it doesn't become the secret ingredient in their barn yard swirl I don't care.

  6. Re:let's marginalize alternative power by legallyillegal · · Score: 2, Funny

    want to stop using oil? use more oil. the more oil you use, the quicker it runs out.

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  7. Re:let's marginalize alternative power by Velox_SwiftFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm looking forward to cow-tipping being classed as a terrorist attack on the energy supply.

  8. Way to increase FPS... by carlmenezes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Feed the cows lots of beans.

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  9. Set up a generator at the White House! by Eternal+Vigilance · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Bush Administration emissions could power the entire planet!

    (And who knew Al Gore had such incredible ecological foresight in not contesting the 2000 election?)

  10. Re:let's marginalize alternative power by RsG · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're raising the terror alert level to Brown :-P

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  11. Re:let's marginalize alternative power by edflyerssn007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll leave aside the global warming debate (which will only bring flames)

    Was the flames a global Warming joke?

    -ed

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  12. Re:let's marginalize alternative power by AGMW · · Score: 2, Funny
    Also a whole (a-hole?) new meaning to "dirty bomb".

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