Posted on 04/26/2008 8:08:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
BTTT!
If someone can figure out a way to harness Alfraud Gore’s BS they’ll have hit the mother lode.
Neat!
Need to get a couple hundred of these things and hook them up to all the hog waste lagoons down in eastern North Carolina.
With innovations like this the US can literally sh-t itself to energy self-sufficiency. Need more power, just feed the cows laxatives.
In slightly over 227 years the system will pay for itself. Sounds like the wave of the future...way in the future.
Shades of “Beyond Thunderdome”.
I suspect that a lot of our future energy needs, especially out of dense urban areas, will be met with micro-energy generation, and technologically advanced conservation, by whatever is most cost effective there.
Importantly, there are two ways of looking at this. The left always tells everyone to “do with less”. But the smart money tells people to “keep improving”. Have more, save more, and pay less. Technology is your friend if you use it wisely. Doing with less, or paying more, just means you were fooled.
Renewable Energy PING?
cost: 1,000,000.00
assuming the average home spends 100.00 a month on electricity, they can produce enough for 200.00 homes.
200x$100.00=20,000.00 per month.
That is 240,000.00 per year.
It’s true.
I am aware of some large dairy operations in Minnesota that have built anaerobic digesters.
A few have produced so much energy that they have sold it back to a local power co-op.
“Who run Bartertown?”
The secret here is this phrase buried in the article:
He said energy prices and government grants are what has made the digesters successful.So, we're ALL helping these gadgets pay for themselves. How cute!
Exactly!
There’s a definite regional need for anaerobic digesters.
Iowa is another state that has a lot of large-scale swine feedlots. Disposing of the manure has always been an issue and has led to some feedlots being denied a license partially on the basis that they couldn’t promise a good way of disposing of the manure.
In western Minnesota, there are a lot of turkey and chicken farms and obviously, they produce a lot of dropping, manure, etc. One power plant, in Benson, is fired entirely by turkey droppings. So far, it has proven to be successful.
Click on this link for more info:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18847427/
I respectfully disagree with the scoffers here. I applaud those who seek to use alternative energy sources. Yeah, its not much but the mere fact they are pushing the envelope to try something new means a lot. I want to drill for oil as much as anyone, and think it’s almost criminal that our leaders refuse to drill in ANWR and off-shore, but we need to really push the development of new energy NOW.
“Now the 730 cows on the family farm have added a new dimension to their dairy production. He said each day three to four cows can produce enough electricity for an average home.”
That’s pretty remarkable: just three or four cows produce enough methane to produce energy for an average home.
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