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Vermont ski resort unveils gondola powered entirely by cow manure
Yahoo! News ^
| 10/23/12
| Dylan Stableford
Posted on 10/23/2012 3:53:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Ski and snowboard season for the Northeast opens in just a few weeks. And when it does, a Vermont ski area plans to unveil a gondola powered entirely by cow manure.
Killington Resort in central Vermont has partnered with Green Mountain Power to convert manure from nearby dairy farms to electricity for its K-1 Express Gondola. The so-called "Cow Power" program uses manure from 10,000 cows producing 300,000 gallons of manure per day.
"Easily the coolest thing you can possibly do with cow manure," the power company's website declares. "The short version is that we take cow manure, work some magic, turn it into methane, and then use that methane to generate electricity."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Vermont; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cowmanure; gondola; killington; skiresort; vermont
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Get yur skis waxed and Moo MOo Power Ping!
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:54:04 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
They could power Boston with the manure that comes out of Montpelier (the state capital).
And yes, I live here (hubby is a native, won’t leave).
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:55:54 PM PDT
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: NormsRevenge
Obama’s rhetoric could power it for eternity.
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:56:20 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(The stench from this amateur regime stinks all the way to Kenya.)
To: NormsRevenge
How much taxpayer funds went into this?
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:59:07 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: NormsRevenge
Phew! Don’t think I would want to be skiing near that gondola house!
To: NormsRevenge
Good marketing. This will bring in greenie skiers. They are hoping to draw in greenie one-percenters (from NY and Boston) who will splash some serious cash around and who will actually tip “the help”
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:04:36 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: NormsRevenge
Doesn’t empress me in the least, my ex wife has been operating on that for years.. :)
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:12:41 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
(Less Government, more Fiber..)
To: NormsRevenge
...manure from 10,000 cows producing 300,000 gallons of manure per day. Each cow really produces 30 gallons of manure per day?
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:14:43 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Aardvark111; ACK ACK; Al Koa; Angel of Beth; another_bot_for_W; ApeNipples; axe2grin...
I see my hands' True Life Trivia Low Volume Ping List On? Off? Private Reply Please I was on a gondola ascending Mt. Killington in 1978.A friend lit a cigarette and discarded the match under a seat where it ignited candy wrappers. The fire grew and put us in danger of noxious smoke inhalation, being consumed in the flames and then falling from a great height. Fortunately that was before I quit drinking and I and another were able to utilize a skill perfected in childhood.. We played fire man!
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:17:14 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: NormsRevenge
I think they’re full of it.
To: NormsRevenge
Don’t eat the brown snow.
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:41:54 PM PDT
by
bimboeruption
(Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
To: DuncanWaring
do you know how many stomachs cows have?
(actually 1 but it has four parts to it)
and they drink like politicians to boot.
exercise is nil. they aren’t allowed on the slopes..
much less the ski lift.
To: NormsRevenge
Anyone else find it ironic that the author of an article on manure is named Stableford? LOL
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posted on
10/23/2012 5:05:28 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: NormsRevenge
Big deal.
There is an entire administration, government for that matter powered by nothing but BS. That is what obastard’s mouth runs on. Pure BS.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/23/2012 5:39:14 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
(yup-Who knew??)
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posted on
10/23/2012 6:12:13 PM PDT
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RedMDer
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To: NormsRevenge
I read this years ago on a bumper sticker, back when the tree huggers decided to mix “gray” water into the snow making mix; “Killington - Where the Affluent Meet the Effluent”. The bumper sticker had a shadow figure using toilet plungers for ski poles. LMAO
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posted on
10/23/2012 6:20:54 PM PDT
by
printhead
(Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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