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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."

4 of 400 comments (clear)

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

    That idea really stinks!

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

    Who would want to pay more for crappy power?

  3. 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.

  4. 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?)