How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung

  • March 26, 2008
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Cow manure contains methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Farmers who collect and burn methane keep it out of the atmosphere while generating clean electricity.

You Will Need

  • Cows
  • A poop scraper
  • An anaerobic digesting tank
  • A gas-fired generator
How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Collect the poop

Step 1: Collect the poop

Collect the cow poop. Large confinement dairies and feedlots have the most concentrated manure piles.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Put the poop in a tank

Step 2: Put the poop in a tank

With a special scraper, put the fresh poop down a drain leading to a digester tank.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Make poop soup

Step 3: Make poop soup

Heat the poop to about 98 degrees.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Let it stew

Step 4: Let it stew

Let the manure’s natural juices digest the organic matter for one to three weeks.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Separate gas from solids

Step 5: Separate gas from solids

Use a machine to separate the methane gas from the liquids and solids in the tank.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Burn the gas

Step 6: Burn the gas

Burn the methane in a generator, creating clean electricity for use on the farm. Or sell it to the electric company.

As carbon markets grow, selling carbon credits will be a great way to earn extra cash for clean energy.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Sell fiber as mulch

Step 7: Sell fiber as mulch

The leftover fiber from the digesting process does not smell! It can be dried out and used or sold as mulch.

How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung: Recycle the water

Step 8: Recycle the water

The remaining liquid is full of nutrients; water can be separated out and recycled. The rest can be spread on fields or sold as fertilizer.

In 2007, U.S. farms made 275 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from cow poop, enough to power more than 25,000 households.

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Comments (6)

jimmy

dung power, baby! that guy looks wayy too happy to be working with poop in a bunny suit

over 3 years ago by jimmy

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clayton

you speaking from personal experience there buddy? lol

over 3 years ago by clayton

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ADK

I think they did this one already in Mad Max.. Who Rules BarTer ToWn??! MAsterBlaster Rules barter-town..

over 3 years ago by ADK

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ADK

Methane is a clean-energy source and parallels the use of industrial hemp for non-food-crop based biodiesel production in terms of needing attention and action on a National Scale.

over 3 years ago by ADK

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norgon

Can you say poop fetish?

over 3 years ago by norgon

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djh

This video is really, really cool. Looks fantastic.

over 3 years ago by djh

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ntuman

wow! brown gold!

over 3 years ago by ntuman

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7 months ago by gedrttgtge

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