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<FONT FACE="Verdana">If any of you ever watched the show “Good Neighbors” (originally “The Good Life” in Great Britain), there’s a whole episode where Tom builds a generator coupled with an “effluence digester”, which was basically something to extract methane from what they politely called effluence (ie. poop).<BR>
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Glorko<BR>
Exiled king of the planet Zoltron and repository of arcane (as well as useless) information<BR>
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on 2/18/08 9:04 PM, Bodhikt@aol.com at Bodhikt@aol.com wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000098">> In a message dated 2/18/2008 6:20:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, <BR>
> grossfamm@comcast.net writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#980000">>>> the gas emissions of belching cows, but well, what else can you say? You <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000098">> don't think Sergio would just make up something like that do you? Ok, maybe <BR>
> he would.<<<BR>
> Naw. There was really a research study on it. And the conclusion was, all <BR>
> the methane released from cattle was adding (significantly) to global warming. <BR>
> Not just their "burps", however....<BR>
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> Many years ago... in Mother Earth News, I think, there was a description of <BR>
> a "methane cooker"-- sort of an enclosed compost heap, but instead of getting <BR>
> mulch from it, you got methane gas which could be used as fuel to run <BR>
> generators. Some of the pig-farming communes in China were using them.... I'm <BR>
> sure <BR>
> "cow pies" could be used as raw material instead of the porcine <BR>
> equivalent.... <BR>
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> Kaytee<BR>
> Proudly marching to a different kettle of fish<BR>
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