How To Fight Climate Change With Cow Dung
- March 26, 2008
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Writer
jennigreen
Voice Over Artist
Taige Jensen
Music
Todd Mazierski
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
Step 1: Collect the poop
Collect the cow poop. Large confinement dairies and feedlots have the most concentrated manure piles.
Step 2: Put the poop in a tank
With a special scraper, put the fresh poop down a drain leading to a digester tank.
Step 3: Make poop soup
Heat the poop to about 98 degrees.
Step 4: Let it stew
Let the manure’s natural juices digest the organic matter for one to three weeks.
Step 5: Separate gas from solids
Use a machine to separate the methane gas from the liquids and solids in the tank.
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.
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.
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)
dung power, baby! that guy looks wayy too happy to be working with poop in a bunny suit
over 3 years ago by jimmy
you speaking from personal experience there buddy? lol
over 3 years ago by clayton
I think they did this one already in Mad Max..
Who Rules BarTer ToWn??!
MAsterBlaster Rules barter-town..
over 3 years ago by 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
Can you say poop fetish?
over 3 years ago by norgon
This video is really, really cool. Looks fantastic.
over 3 years ago by djh
wow! brown gold!
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7 months ago by gedrttgtge
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