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Cow Manure --> Electricity 519

Posted by michael on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:00PM from the cow-power dept.

jmtpi writes "ABCNews has a story about a dairy farm in Minnesota that uses its cow manure to generate enough electricity to power the farm plus 80 homes and create fertilizer. There's also a more detailed story."

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This story... (Score:5, Funny)

by asramchusak ( 652686 ) writes: <asram_chusak@hotmail.com> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:01PM (#5472627) Homepage

Is a crock of shit. :)

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I smell a winner! (Score:5, Funny)

by FrostedWheat ( 172733 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:03PM (#5472633)

Ahhh the sweet smell of efficency. *takes a deep breath*

*faints*

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Which just goes to prove... (Score:3, Funny)

by mikosullivan ( 320993 ) writes: <miko@i3.14docs.com minus pi> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:03PM (#5472636)

... the power of bullshit.

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truimph the cow says... (Score:5, Funny)

by dotgod ( 567913 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:05PM (#5472647)

That's a nice generator...
FOR ME TO POOP ON!

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shit that's amazing... (Score:2, Funny)

by jonveit ( 633746 ) writes: <[ten.tsacmoc] [ta] [tievnoj]> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:07PM (#5472657)

...literally

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In other news.... (Score:3, Funny)

by lildogie ( 54998 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:08PM (#5472666)

Flying cows replace power transmission lines.

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Re:Which just goes to prove... (Score:5, Funny)

by ATMAvatar ( 648864 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:13PM (#5472699) Journal

... the power of bullshit.

If we could round up all the politicians in DC, we could power the world.

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Wow (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:14PM (#5472705)

22000 gal manure per day/ 760 cows = 30 gal/cow per day

Doesn't that seem a little hi?

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Re:When I was a kid... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:20PM (#5472726)

way to ruin the film for me, asshole. now i'm /definitely/ not seeing it.

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Be a patriot! (Score:2, Funny)

by Ilan Volow ( 539597 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:34PM (#5472806) Homepage

If you're extremely patriotic, collect all the cow shit you can and store it in your back yard. You too can help reduce America's dependency on foreign oil.

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Oh god... the joke just made itself... (Score:2, Funny)

by Cappy Red ( 576737 ) writes: <miketoonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:37PM (#5472820)

In Soviet Russia... ... water and sewage board pays you!

Or is that Communist China?

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Re:Washington DC (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:40PM (#5472837)

I think you are confusing shit with hot air. Using the hot air would be closer to geothermal or taking advantage of temperature gradients.

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Now... (Score:5, Funny)

by Quixote ( 154172 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:50PM (#5472873) Homepage Journal

If only someone could come up with a way to generate electricity from the crap that people post here....

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Re:Be a patriot! (Score:5, Funny)

by DavidBrown ( 177261 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @05:53PM (#5472883) Journal

Remember, when you leave that cow manure alone, you are leaving it alone with Osama bin Ladin.

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Re:Methane wasted at many facilities (Score:5, Funny)

by Typingsux ( 65623 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:02PM (#5472933)

You think you thought up the idea, but people already pay for each others shit.
It's called Ebay

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what if (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:06PM (#5472950)

What if we used human waste. No wait, what about the heat humans generate in addtion to their waste. What if we could harness the heat from people. We could power a lot of computers and use the computers to keep the people busy while they create heat. I'm going to start working on this right away.

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Re:I smell a winner! (Score:5, Funny)

by paganizer ( 566360 ) writes: <thegrove1 AT hotmail DOT com> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:09PM (#5472960) Homepage Journal

Yup, sounds like a real Cash Cow.

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The real world (Score:3, Funny)

by Filiks ( 578065 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:11PM (#5472966)

The cow-body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery. And over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of combustion...the humans had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields...where cow-beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it. And then I saw the fields with my own eyes...watched them liquify the dead...so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure, horrifying precision...I came to realize the the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world...built to keep us under control...in order to change a cow-being...into this. (a battery)

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Indian civilization knows the value of manure. :) (Score:4, Funny)

by Sri Ramkrishna ( 1856 ) writes: <sriram.ramkrishna@Nospam.gmail.com> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:15PM (#5472987)

Bah, we Indians have been using cow manure for a variety of things for hundreds if not thousands of years. I'm not surprised that there is even more useful things we could do it. It's been a replacement for Lysol and fuel. This method is also used in India called Gorba gas. :P

They laughed at us when we told them that cows were holy. Guess, whose laughing now?!

Cow Zindabad, Cow Zindabad! :-) [trans. long life to cows]

sri

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Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)

by Kafka_Canada ( 106443 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @06:32PM (#5473071)

Doesn't that seem a little hi?

That strikes me as more of a big hello.

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Re:a positive trend (Score:4, Funny)

by British ( 51765 ) writes: <british1500@gmail.com> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:09PM (#5473245) Homepage Journal

(4 windows down at 75mph). Similar for the household.

Soo, you have a mobile home that goes 75 mph?

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Is this news for the US ? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:31PM (#5473342)

This is done in India for hundreds of thousands of years. I have seen and played around one as a tiny kid couple of decades back. I am surprized that such a matured technology has taken Sooo LOOOONG to come to the US (in the 21st century). WOW !!!!!!

** Faints With Surprize **

Vishal.

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Re:veganism (Score:2, Funny)

by eatdave13 ( 528393 ) writes: <davec@lepertheory.net> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:44PM (#5473419)

I don't eat salad. That's what food eats.

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technically does this shit hit the fan? (Score:3, Funny)

by xlurker ( 253257 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:46PM (#5473429) Homepage

so... when the boilers burst
the shit hits the fan, eh?

and ecologically friendly PP SUVs would really be transporting a shitload of stuff...
(PP=poop propelled)

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Re:This story... (Score:3, Funny)

by scumdamn ( 82357 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:49PM (#5473446)

Only if it's in India. (I know. I visited there for a while.)

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Re:I smell a winner! (Score:3, Funny)

by B3ryllium ( 571199 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @07:54PM (#5473470) Homepage

"I love the smell of cow shit in the morning"

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Re:This story... (Score:2, Funny)

by updog ( 608318 ) writes: on Sunday March 09, 2003 @10:03PM (#5473979) Homepage

Come on, don't pooh-pooh this idea - think of some ways in which you too can help wipe our dependency on fossil fuels!

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Manure to Electricty? (Score:3, Funny)

by Swaffs ( 470184 ) writes: <.swaff. .at. .fudo.org.> on Sunday March 09, 2003 @11:24PM (#5474336) Homepage

I call bullshit!

(Sorry, sorry... +1, Lame?)

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This story... (Score:5, Funny)

I smell a winner! (Score:5, Funny)

Which just goes to prove... (Score:3, Funny)

truimph the cow says... (Score:5, Funny)

shit that's amazing... (Score:2, Funny)

In other news.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Which just goes to prove... (Score:5, Funny)

Wow (Score:5, Funny)

Re:When I was a kid... (Score:1, Funny)

Be a patriot! (Score:2, Funny)

Oh god... the joke just made itself... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Washington DC (Score:1, Funny)

Now... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Be a patriot! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Methane wasted at many facilities (Score:5, Funny)

what if (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I smell a winner! (Score:5, Funny)

The real world (Score:3, Funny)

Indian civilization knows the value of manure. :) (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)

Re:a positive trend (Score:4, Funny)

Is this news for the US ? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:veganism (Score:2, Funny)

technically does this shit hit the fan? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This story... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I smell a winner! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This story... (Score:2, Funny)

Manure to Electricty? (Score:3, Funny)

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