Posted on 01/18/2005 11:34:12 AM PST by bedolido
MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- The 1,500 cows at Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport are producing more than just milk. They're generating electricity.
The methane gas from their manure is being used to produce electricity for Vermont's largest utility.
"This is the first time anywhere in the country that a farm-based generation has been offered to customers as a renewable choice," Central Vermont Public Service Corp. spokesman Steve Costello said.
Other farms have generated electricity for their own use, he said.
The manure is heated up and then produces methane gas as it breaks down. The gas is collected and used to power a generator, which sends electricity onto the power grid.
So far about 1,000 customers have signed on to pay about 4 cents more per kilowatt-hour for their electricity to support the farmers. Residential households ordinarily pay about 12 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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Re-moooo-able energy.
"Mommy, why does the TV smell funny when I turn it on?"
If manure is an energy source, Washington DC should light up the nation.
Glad I'm not running that power plant.
Where do they get all the bullcrap from-Bernie Sanders' mouth?
"We call it Underworld. That's where Bartertown gets its energy."
"What, oil? Natural gas?"
"Pigs."
"You mean pigs like those?"
"That's right."
"Bulls**t!"
"No. Pig s**t."
"What?"
"Pig s**t. The lights, the motors, the vehicles, all run by a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig s**t."
--Tina Turner, Mel Gibson and Frank Thring, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
There is NOTHING in Montpelier. You have to go to the big city of Barre for everything.
"The manure is heated up and then produces methane gas as it breaks down."
No sh*t.
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No, thanks. Boycott CNN.com. If you don't want to fund the left, do not increment their hit counter.
You'd think Howard Dean's scream ought to be enough to heat the entire state.
Pay up.
They should have The Swimmer and The Bent One provide methane. They could light up the Capitol.
What's the new dairy industry ad:
"Got Methane?"
or
"Got Gas?"
No sh!t huh...
Well known fact...must be a slow day for CNN...
MD
That's nice: How much energy is used to heat up the manure? Probably more than is gained from the release of the gas.
"Mr. Case, do farts burn?"
"I guess so, they're mostly methane."
The foregoing is an actual transcript of an academic conversation between a group of Explorer Scouts and their adult adviser, an organic chemist, which occurred on a camping trip after a dinner of hot dogs and beans about 46 years ago. Thereafter, the scouts and their adviser immediately conducted a series of scientific experiments to test the hypothesis. Such experiments have also been conducted by prisoners in the Soviet Gulag. See Alexander Dolgun, "An American in the Gulag."
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