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.
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?
“Who run Bartertown?”
“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.
Back in the ‘60s my hometown sewage plant had an engine that ran on methane gas from the break down of the waste. It ran a generator that produced electricity.
Interesting article—thanks.
I wonder if Michael Yoder is related to a Yoder’s Dairy down in the Virginia Beach area.
Anyway, the larger point from this article is this: alternative fuel sources will only develop once they are financially feasible and that will occur only when the price of oil goes higher than the market actually will bear.
If we were ever to run out of oil, truly, or have supplied cut off in a real way, America would go through a few rough patches, but before too long our engineers and entrepreneurs and everybody else in the ingenuity business would be coming up with all kinds of fixes to get the job done.
This must be a poster child for the democrat party, right?
The politicians (esp the democraps) there produce enough bullcrap to generate electricity for 250,000 homes (at least)!!
If methane can be harnessed this way, my brother-in-law alone should be able to light up Texas all by himself!