Posted on 05/23/2007 7:31:23 PM PDT by Calpernia
The gray, sandy mix of turkey droppings and other bits and pieces flowing through Greg Langmo's fingers back onto the floor of his barn isn't just funky dirt, it's fuel.
With 16,000 hens gobbling around him, Langmo is standing on a 15-inch layer of turkey litter - some 750 tons of the stuff - that represents a new source of energy.
It will help fuel a $200 million power plant due to begin full-scale production next month. The 55-megawatt Fibrominn LLC plant will be the first poultry litter-fired power plant in the United States, tapping a novel source of renewable energy to produce enough power for 50,000 homes. Its developers are planning similar plants in other major poultry states.
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I bet you get A.M. radio reception really well.
Pigfarmers are the numero uno market for talk radio.
I think that should be $it.
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Humble jumped his leash.
He is now in the backyard where he belongs!
I do. WIBA 1310 AM is less than 5 miles from our farm, LOL! Conservative Talk Radio, all day long. I love it!
Mitch Henck (moderate Libertarian), Rush Limbaugh, then Vicki McKenna. A stellar line-up. :)
Turkey poop power? I bet the equipment that uses it gets really sleepy.
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