Posted on 01/03/2021 11:30:19 AM PST by PROCON
According to Wired, a new bovine burp mask fitted with a catalytic converter catches methane expelled from cattle and converts it to CO2 and water. Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.
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There are 1.6 billion cattle on Earth, and their burps and farts are becoming a big problem. Cows expel methane, a colourless and odourless gas which is approximately 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet.
Zelp, a UK-based company, has developed a potential solution in the form of a burp-catching face mask for cows, designed to reduce methane emissions from cattle by 60 per cent. The firm was founded by brothers Francisco and Patricio Norris, whose family run a livestock farming business in Argentina. “We were aware that in every country, methane is one of the biggest contributions to global warming and we found that methane mitigation tools in agriculture are under-researched,” says Francisco. “There isn’t a lot of innovation occurring within the field.”
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New mask mandate for Cows!
Coming to the farm near you!
I would welcome these goobers to come try to put these things on my cows as long as I get to video it.
I’ll even slo-mo the parts where they get gored and stomped and send it to their next of kin.
They must be working with a bunch of docile bottle fed heifers and not just your average cow in the field.
I thought the climate change problem was at the other end of the cow...
All this to reduce man’s 0.00136% CO2 in the atmosphere which can’t possibly be causing climate change-
Then when they calve, you can have a BBQ and cook those steaks up with the stored up methane. What about the bull? Your local auto repair shop keeps one in the pit when he’s not working on an engine, and let’s him run free when he is.
“Someone is doing too much drinking!”
Likely huffing too many cow farts.
I’m a mechanic.
Some guys I have worked with really are bulls.
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