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Posted on 02/06/2006 8:06:59 PM PST by DaveLoneRanger
The world is freaked out about climate change, global warming, and greenhouse gasses, and it could be up to skippy and his stomach juices to save the day.
We all know kangaroos are pretty special, but it's their lack of flatulence, or more precisely the lack of methane emissions, that has researchers excited.
While they eat pretty much the same thing, cows end up producing a lot of methane, and kangaroos don't.
Researchers think a whopping 10 percent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions could be permanently eliminated if scientists can introduce microbes found in the stomach of kangaroos into livestock feed.
Dr Athol Klieve is a senior research scientist in microbial biotechnology at the DPI, "When you ferment grass in the stomach like kangaroos do, they produce hydrogen, and you have to get rid of that hydrogen, or it slows down and stops the fermentation of the material...The production of methane is actually one solution to the problem of getting rid of hydrogen...There are alternative mechanisms of getting rid of that of that hydrogen. One of these is to produce acetate. Acetate is used by the animal as a major part of its energy resources.
“We’ve been able to isolate a number of species of bacteria that do take hydrogen through to acetate and it’s those bacteria that we hope to be able to move across to sheep and cattle, to bring down the methane emissions in sheep and cattle”, Dr Athol Klieve.
And it's not only the atmosphere that will be able to breathe a sigh of relief, farmers could save feed money, “Methane is actually a loss of feed energy. It’s an inefficient use of your feed. If you can, instead of using that feed energy as methane to the atmosphere and causing greenhouse problems, if you can convert that to something like acetate, that’s more energy available for the animal for growth and production”, Dr Athol Klieve.
Darn, I thought they meant Skippy peanut butter....
What I'd like to know is even though I'm pretty sure that my "men" don't eat the same things as kangaroos and/or cows and....
Since I am the only female in the house with 1 hubby, 2 boys and one male dog, how can I SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the methane emissions in my own house?
Even more importantly, how can I end the constant laughing, snorting and thinking it's SO funny?
MKM
Me too. I thought maybe George Washington Carver missed that application of the lowly goober pea...
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That part is much more difficult...
Hey, MKM....pull my finger....;-)
You can't, its a force of nature.....
Unfortunately, thanks to Grandpa (my dad) they know that one real well.
I'm doomed!!!
MKM
Cut back on the Hormel Chili.
I would have told her a diet of beer, cabbage, onions, beans and broccoli was a sure cure.
Butt that's just me.
Light 'em if you got 'em...
Somehow the idea of cows leaping around like kangaroos is making me a little edgy with this idea.
Well if they used the Skippy like spackle and sealed up the cattles methane emitters, then maybe.....
You know what you get if you cross kangaroos with elephants, don't you?
Jif is better. Do a blind taste test.
Kangaphants?
Potholes all over Australia...
eleroos?
It is not good to encourage the psychotic.
Why?
If methane from cows is causing global warming, perhaps the cows understand this and are simply trying to keep warm.
In Michigan, those little 2 foot deep, 6 yards long, containing tractor trailer suspension parts are referred to as 'chuckholes'.
ping me if you find out the answers to your questions.
You can't... it's got something to do with how us guys are made. :-)
Yeah, but you guys call pot 'ditch weed'...
Me to! Problem I see is a herd of milk cows jumping around like kangaroos....isn't that going to make a lot of butter prematurely...and how do you "get the butter out"??
Flatulence = Methane Gas = CH4 = atomic weight 16.
Clouds = Water Vapor = H2O = atomic weight 18.
The earth is just massive enough to retain its water vapor, which is why clouds don't keep rising right into space. The earth is just light enough that all the flatulence does keep rising right into space.
Coincidence? Could be, but when scientists have discovered literally hundreds of such just-right coincidences, it becomes compelling.
Why is it the most disgusting subjects bring out the best in freepers....
Around these parts, this joke is fairly universally known, but go figure, it turns out jokes tend to be regional. So sorry if this is one EVERYBODY knows, but here goes:
What do you get when you cross an Elephant with a rhinoceras?
Oh no! LOL! Not ANOTHER cow fart thread!
Ping.
American Country&Western song: "Jim's Windy Mule" by the Sweet Violet Boys. (Must've been those modern kind of cowboys.)
Cleaning my computer screen on that one.
Okay, okay, it is good for a laugh, but sometimes it comes back to haunt you.
Leave and go shopping? When your husband begins to make the connection and reaslise how much money your spending, HE'LL put a stop to it, I'd think. Yeah, I know, that's an awfully sexist thing to say, but if you want to leave, which I would imagine you would, AND you want to give him motivation to stop, go and tell him to give you a call when they're done entertaining themselves. You might as well enjoy yourself if you're going to go out.
Must be regional; I don't recall hearing it before. So what DO you get?
Good question, but if these globull warming threads are all this much fun, please add me to this ping list, Dave.
Now think: Let's just say all the farts in the whole world, animal and human farts, contribute to "global warming". Where would we start to stop farting. Did man and beast fart in the 16th century? I think I would have to say that they did, some more profane than others, but fart they must have.
Well, considering that there were less people and animals to fart in those days, I suppose that there would have been much less fart gas to pollute the atmosphere, therefore, less global warming.
If we consider the increase in human and animal populations, and thus, the increase in fart gas over the centuries, one must consider the compliment to global warming, or cooling, or just a foul oder in the air that some elitists (that doesn't fart) don't like.
Except for a English Bulldog fart, a human fart stays in the air for a total of 30 seconds, White Castle farts linger much longer and must be put on the outer slope of the curve. But, none the less, most human farts are of average to totally offensive in nature. They can be placed at any point in the curve, depending on your olfactory sensitivity. But, does that olfactory offensiveness really contribute to the "green house gas" effect? That would have to be examined by analyzing the fart it's self. ie: does the offensiveness of the fart really produce "green house gases" that contribute to global warming/global cooling. In order to make the hypothesis a scientific one would have to examine all farts. We are talking human, and every other species. Farts then become very important, and government agencies should examine all farts from all species. My God, we'll save the world!
A six pack of Leinie's, and bag of White Castles and some onion chips (White Castles) and the sun will go dark tomorrow.
Shall we stop farting? Maybe it is time.
Don't forget the pickled eggs!
'ell if I know.....
Imagine the fusion plant of the future, the mighty machine that will produce the millions of MW of power necessary to power tomorrow's civilization.
It will be fueled with kangaroo farts. :P
Oh, it turns into acetate.
Never mind. :D
I seem to recall at least one reference as such in Shakespeare's writings.
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