Posted on 10/08/2021 10:36:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
What do aliens, ghosts, and cow manure all have in common? Apparently, they’re all something to be shot with plasma. Yes, in an unconventional bid to tackle the ever-developing climate crisis, scientists have been shooting cow poop with plasma beams. The aim? To strip the matter of its most damaging components – namely ammonia and methane.
The unusual experiment is unfolding on a picturesque farm in Buckinghamshire, UK, where cow dung is in no short supply. Using ”artificial lightning” made of a plasma bolt – a super-heated stream of atoms capable of shattering molecules – scientists got to shooting the sh!t to see if it could break up the poop’s contents.
Analyses of the feces revealed that the plasma poop treatment was successful, obliterating ammonia and breaking it down into pure nitrogen. This is an added win for the farmers, who use nitrogen as a fertilizer. By blasting the poop into the next dimension, they in turn create a highly fertile slurry that can be used right there on the farm. According to a report from the BBC, the treatment is so effective it’s able to zap 90 percent of the ammonia into nitrogen.
As for methane, artificial lightning got rid of 99 percent. This is a huge win for cow farming from an environmental perspective, as traditional practices which see the manure mounting up have been identified as a significant contributor to global emissions. Methane has a direct effect of warming on the Earth, something we certainly don’t need any more of right now.
Ammonia toxic, so blasting it to smithereens is good for the environment and will rid the countryside of that characteristic stank that lingers around farming communities. These ammonia clouds also present a potential threat to cities – should they drift into busy urban environments, they can react with other air pollutants, creating toxic combinations that can have serious health implications.
While the results of the tests in the UK have been positive, the technology isn’t without its limitations. In an ideal world, the tech would be rolled out globally, but its practicality in terms of affordability has yet to be determined.
The plasma poop treatment comes at a time of rediscovery and innovation for cattle farming, as it was announced recently that elsewhere cows had been successfully taught to use a toilet. By gathering all the cow poo-poo and pee-pee into a convenient latrine, the approach hopes to secure waterways that can become contaminated when you have too many animals gathered in one spot, as is the case in a lot of cattle farming settings.
Plasma bolts and cows on the loo? Farm trips just got a lot more exciting.
[H/T: BBC]
Now this is real science.
I remember the farmer across the valley from my deer camp, running his manure spreader across the stubble of a corn field in fall. Dozens of wild turkeys in tow picking through the crap for undigested seeds and any insects that came along for the ride. Always a waving field of something the following summer
Moonwalking Cows. Cool
Plant more trees! Stop cutting them down!
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A vast amount of trees are in tree farms. Those that are not are replanted. There are now more trees and vegetation that when the Pilgrims landed. Cities are the only blight, creating virtual deserts.
The rest is all city-folk panic, media hype, and part of the War on Natural Resource Harvesters.
I remember as kids we’d put cherry bombs in cow pies and light them. Talk about a manure spreader…you had to run pretty hard or you’d be wearing some of it.
And how much coal are they burning in their effort to zap things with plasma to save the earth from Global Warming?
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The answer lies right next to the amount of coal it takes to create EV batteries and keep them charged.
and the electric for the plasma comes from where?
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Magic ...
Moonwalking Cows. Cool
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Cats will not be pleased
I can’t quite fathom how stupid this is. Its a very large pile of stupid. And I am certain the scientists know it. But since they can sell it to the politicians who can in turn sell it to the newspapers who then sell it to us, the scientists will keep doing it. It pays.
The reality is that everything decays. You put carbon and Oxygen together with or without other elements and it will decay over time. The result will be some sort of natural gas. Oxygen separates and Hydrogen takes its place most commonly. If its trapped it can become oil or coal. But it always starts from something alive and ends up as gas.
When it comes to cows they don’t make more gas. These scientists understand that the grass they eat was going to become gas anyway. Cows help the process along. Before there were cows there were deer and buffalo and bison. The herds were sometimes millions of animals.
Cows don’t make hydrogen. They don’t make carbon. They don’t even put them together. The plants do that. Cows only act as a dating service for bacteria and larger bugs who come together to eat or otherwise breakdown the grass cows eat. Farts that are so maligned are just the breakdown process that happens inside the cow. After the poop comes out, the process continues. If you stop the process temporarily, by cooking the poop. At some point the poop will get wet and something else will begin to eat it and break it down. You can’t really stop the process. Its called life.
But I don’t think that biochemistry 101 is the issue here. The issue is that our so called scientists have adapted into cynical greedy bastards who have learned to thrive on the largess of the pitifully stupid. Government employees, journalists and the public are so stupid that they will give these scientists millions to cook poop. Which does nothing but like the cows the scientists eek out an existence by moving money away from stupid people, and giving it to their wives to buy things at Costco and other places. Like Global warming activists they do nothing except buy a nicer car, or increase their ticket size at Costco. How profoundly stupid it all is.
Great post
Hmmm, I’m always on the lookout for atmospheric pressure plasmas and biological applications. This one I haven’t seen yet. Also, isn’t ammonia a problem with urine as opposed to feces?
This was only a small-scale test to see if BS could be eliminated in principle. A much more powerful device will be constructed in Washington DC.
;-)
Cows do both...................
some people just can’t leave sh*t alone...
What climate crisis?
No one wants to mention the fact that cow feces is used for fertilizer? We buy it in 50 lb. bags from a local cattle farm and use it for new soil in the pasture and composting. So now we’re destroying one of the best forms of natural fertilizer to “save the planet?”
These people don’t think. They don’t take their hysteria beyond step one. These people are going to be the reason for humanity’s extinction.
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