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Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel
Dave Knott writes with this intriguing snippet from CBC: "Argentine scientists have found a way to transform the gas created by the bovine digestive system into fuel, an innovation that could curb greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Using a system of valves and pumps, the experimental technique developed by Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) channels the digestive gases from bovine stomach cavities through a tube and into a tank. The gases — which otherwise are commonly known as burps, or "eruptos" in Spanish — are then processed to separate methane from other gases such as carbon dioxide. Each head of cattle emits between 250 and 300 liters of pure methane a day, enough energy to keep a refrigerator running for 24 hours."
And then you have to "insert tubes" into the poor cows to do this? PETA is going to have a COW! Uh.. Wait...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
turn the cow into a battery
I don't think Carrie-Ann Moss looked that bad.
I always thought the human battery idea was sort of like saying we use potatoes to power the LHC.
I visualize a vast tower full of tubing hooked to burping cows powering a massive AI and all the humans are jacked into the other side living in the Mootrix.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
One time I sneezed half the papers off my desk. They should look into that too because its an awful lot of energy.