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Netherlands to power 90,000 homes with chicken manure

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2008-09-10 11:40:14 by AdamFrucci in DVICE
...manure is a viable source of energy. Who knew? The folks in the Netherlands, apparently, as they're planning to power 90,000 homes with pure chicken excrement. A new 150 million euro plan will convert about 440,000 tons of chicken poo into about 270 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. It's a pretty great system, as it both...
 
Tags: crap, crap energy plan, energy, power, million kilowatt hours, million euro plan, netherlands, viable source, unorthodox sources
 
 
 
 
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Californian cows gassing up the grid.

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2008-03-07 13:03:00 by HASH0x8c3b608 in Newlaunches.com
...manure, in what it hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy. The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, the brainchild of life- long dairyman David Albers, aims to provide the natural gas needed to power 1,200 homes a day, Albers said at the facility's inauguration ceremony. As cow manure decomposes, it...
 
Tags: renewable, renewable energy, renewable gas, produce renewable gas, dairy, vintage dairy farm, gas, greenhouse gas, gas transmission lines
 
 
 
 
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This Renewable Energy is Bullshit [Environment]

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2008-03-07 11:07:14 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...manure. Yes, cow poop emits methane as it decomposes. And while usually that's a bad thing, with methane being a potent greenhouse gas and all, it can be captured and turned into a renewable source of energy So that's just what PG&E are doing, using manure to power up to 1,200 homes in California. It's all part of new regulations in the state...
 
Tags: gas, renewable gas, energy, potent greenhouse gas, manure, cow manure, digester channel, digester, gas collects underneath
 
 
 
 
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Electricity from Cow Poop!

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2008-05-28 19:46:08 by max in zedomax.com
...manure digester to harvest methane gas from manure. We burn the methane to create electricity, while sending the processed manure back to the farmers as an organic fertilizer now free of pathogens and odor via make animal waste , commercialized , Consumer , Cool , cow poop , Earth , Educational , Energy , Entertainment , farmers , free of...
 
Tags: electricity, cow poop, produce electricity, manure, methane gas, methane, manure digester, excess animal waste, animal waste
 
 
 
 
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Beyond Thunderdome The Rise of 'Smart Poo'

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2008-03-19 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...manure at culprits attacking his rural offices Here's Al Webb's story about this throwback weaponry, from the March 17, 2008 Washington Times. Ex-stuntman targets vandals with nasty catapult A British businessman fed up with being targeted by vandals has installed a 30-foot Roman-style catapult on the premises to hurl bucket loads of chicken...
 
Tags: weston-webb promises, weston-webb, mary weston-webb, weston-webb stood, stuntman joe weston-webb, webb, catapult, 30-foot roman-style catapult, river soar
 
 
 
 
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BioGas Digesters

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2008-01-23 07:15:00 by Grupo Gavilán in Green Gadget Inspector
...manure and improvement of hygiene Between the late 1970s and early 1980s when the Chinese government fomented biogas production not only as a way of providing energy, but also as environmental protection and improvement of hygiene, as well as modernization of agriculture. Some 6 million digesters were set up in China at that time, attracting...
 
Tags: biogas, simple biogas digesters, biogas digester, chinese biogas technology, biogas digesters, biogas tank, biogas production, biogas technology, million biogas tanks
 
 
 
 
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How to win a Gateway PC? Get a tattoo!

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2008-04-08 20:39:20 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...manure and a New Hampshire teen who polar-beared in the Atlantic Ocean in the winter. Runner-ups won a Microsoft Zune music player and a Gateway flash drive Most Humorous S.P.O.T.S Most Creative (tie The Quest for More Power Thats How I Roll Most Daring Zane Savage Live: My Entry Try to win your own stuff by checking out my weekly...
 
Tags: gateway, tattoo, irvines gateway, win, gateway fx540xt, gateway logo, local tattoo store, win stuff, stuff
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Find Mixing is Key to Turning Manure into Biogas

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2008-04-20 11:00:00 by Lisa Zyga in Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
Researchers have taken another step toward turning animal waste into biogas on a large scale Farmers have long called the odor of farm waste "the smell of money" in hopes of converting it into a practical energy supply. Animal waste can produce methane, which can be used directly for energy or converted to either methanol or a mix of hydrogen...
 
Tags: energy, practical energy supply, animal waste, mix, synthetic mix, produce methane, biogas, technorati tags, farm waste
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Find Mixing is Key to Turning Manure into Biogas

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2008-04-20 11:00:00 by Lisa Zyga in Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
Researchers have taken another step toward turning animal waste into biogas on a large scale Farmers have long called the odor of farm waste "the smell of money" in hopes of converting it into a practical energy supply. Animal waste can produce methane, which can be used directly for energy or converted to either methanol or a mix of hydrogen...
 
Tags: energy, practical energy supply, animal waste, mix, synthetic mix, produce methane, biogas, technorati tags, farm waste
 
 
 
 
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David Byrne on Robert Rauschenberg's 'Reality Distortion Field' 'Silly, Profound and Beautiful'

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2008-05-17 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe