Wheee!
Posted on 05/07/2014 10:20:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
It’s common knowledge that certain types of organic waste can be harnessed as energy sources, with UK firm 2OC even recently turning huge greaseballs found in the country’s sewers into power for local homes. Now Argentina’s INTA governmental research body has developed cow backpacks that trap the methane they produce in order to turn it into green energy.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, methane accounts for nine percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the US, and the agriculture sector is the primary source of these emissions. Recognizing that methane released into the atmosphere is damaging to the environment, but valuable as an energy resource when captured, scientists at INTA developed a system that places a cannula tube into the digestion tract of cattle in order to directly collect any methane produced. ... The gas can then be compressed and stored in containers, ready for use to power a fridge or even a car.
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So methane released into the atmosphere is “bad”. How does using it as fuel change that?
Here, I thought they were unique to Minnesota/the Dakotas/Iowa/Wisconsin.
We should encourage sterilization and/or suicide as the ultimate expressions of environmentalist commitment. “You can’t really love the planet unless you’re willing to die for it.”
Because you will have to pay a lot more for it and pay more in taxes! now stop asking questions you, you denier!
There was a publication called The Mother Earth News that published detailed plans for doing this back in the 70’s.
It's not like cattle live in a hospital environment.
Not that hospital environments are bacteria-free, but they are typically cleaner than a pasture full of mud and manure.
I see a potential here for the development of self-barbecuing cows.
Wheee!
Uff da! My vife is a Svede, ja.
(By way of Lindsborg, KS)
I knew a bunch 20 years ago that did that. They’d even mail them back and forth. I’m not sure how the post office would deal with that today.
OK, one more then.
Ole went over to Fargo an, I mean and, bought a cow.
It gave good milk but farted every time he started milking it.
He was talking to his friend Sven about it, and Sven asked him, “Did ju buy dat cow in NorDakota?”
“Ja,” said Ole. “”but how did ju know dat?
“My vife is from Nordakota.”
The feds are already up our asses so much, I don’t think there’s any room left.
This is satire, it has to be
I understand the cows emit more methane burping than farting. Fart’s are a much sophisticted form of humor however.
This HAS to be satire!
LOL! Don’t get me started . . . I suppose you heard the one about the baby skunks, right?
This is so amazingly stupid and shows how much these people DO NOT know. The vast majority of methane produced by ruminants, cattle, sheep, llamas, goats, deer, elk, buffalo, come from their rumination. It is from the bacteria that exists in their multi-chambered stomachs that allows them to break down cellulose that created the methane. It comes from the front end not the back. It is NOT the flatulence. Capturing the flatulence will do nothing. Of course, putting gas masks on them to capture gases will prevent eating.
This methane will exist no matter what you do. If the cattle do not eat the grass something else will. That creature, whether large or micro-biotic, will produce produce methane as the by product of breaking down cellulose. If something does not eat the grass it becomes lignant and effects the health of the pasture. Grazed grass grows more grass than mowed grass. The eco-system is more vibrant and retains or sequesters more carbon than dead pasture or mowed pasture.
Finally, the methane cycle is a sub-cycle of the carbon cycle. It is heavier than carbon and breaks down far more rapidly than carbon. Comparing carbon and methane is to compare apples and oranges. Also, the UN’s own studies have shown that there is virtually no relation between the number of cattle and the amount of methane in the atmosphere. That is because, as discussed earlier, something still eats the grass and produces methane. Feedlots and dairies are a bit problematic in that they feed grain and store waste in ponds that enable the rapid production of methane, but it is the microbial activity ii the pond that produces methane, not the animal.
Bottom line, IT IS NEVER ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!! It is about controlling the means of production, which is, by definition, socialism. George Will had a great piece about a week ago in which the first sentence was, “Environmentalism is backdoor socialism.” So very true.
crackpot science at work
most methane from cows come from burps, not farts
Who runs barter Town? Master Blaster runs Barter Town!
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