[Groop] Long Post (sort of) from Gary G.

[Chris Schechner]

If any of you ever watched the show ³Good Neighbors² (originally ³The Good
Life² in Great Britain), there¹s a whole episode where Tom builds a
generator coupled with an ³effluence digester², which was basically
something to extract methane from what they politely called effluence (ie.
poop).

Glorko
Exiled king of the planet Zoltron and repository of arcane (as well as
useless) information


 on 2/18/08 9:04 PM, Bodhikt at aol.com at Bodhikt at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/18/2008 6:20:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> grossfamm at comcast.net writes:
> 
>>> the gas emissions of belching cows, but well,  what else can you say?  You
> don't think Sergio would just make up  something like that do you?  Ok, maybe
> he  would.<<
> Naw. There was really a research study on it. And the conclusion was, all
> the methane released from cattle was adding (significantly) to global warming.
> Not just their "burps", however....
> 
> Many years ago... in Mother Earth News, I think, there was a description of
> a "methane cooker"-- sort of an enclosed compost heap, but instead of getting
> mulch from it, you got methane gas which could be used as fuel to run
> generators. Some of the pig-farming communes in China were using them.... I'm
> sure 
> "cow pies" could be used as raw material instead of the porcine
> equivalent....  
> 
> Kaytee
> Proudly marching to a different kettle of  fish

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