[Paul Atreides]

Bubba has been doing the same thing for years. It's called giving a speech.

[LizardQueen]

There's a dairy up here that generates enough electricity this way that they can sell some of it back to the electric company.


LQ

[Texas Eagle]

This is great news. Now that these dairy farmers have a way to supplement their income, maybe we can wean them off their stupid subsidies.

Yeah...right.

[dila813]

So.....

Spent 1.5 Million to save 75% on electricity?

That is a savings of 26,250 a year.

So if the cost of money was free and he had a zero interest rate loan it would take 58 years for this investment to pay off.

Sounds like we would have been better off trucking it off. More enviromental religion, it doesn't matter how much it costs as long as it helps the planet (sarcasm).

[nathanbedford]

My neighbor here in Bavaria has been doing the same thing for some years but it only makes economic sense if subsidized, a concept not foreign to European farming.

[X-FID]

To produce energy, the farmer has to scrape up the manure, mix it with water, and pour it into a lagoon typically covered by an enormous plastic bag. When the mixture is heated, it produces methane, which is trapped by the bag, piped into a generator, and burned to create electricity.

These people are just pulling our chain, right? How are they heating this lagoon? The enormous plastic bag is probably oil based, the methane is piped by existing electrical power no doubt, and what is left? A lagoon full of cow$hit.

They should just shove a hose where the sun don't shine in all their cow's and decrease the overhead, it makes more sense.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Who woulda thought cow $hit be worth sumthin?

Only in America.