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Sheep urine cuts pollution
Ananova ^ | 06-10-2005 | Staff

Posted on 06/10/2005 12:27:09 PM PDT by Red Badger

A British bus company is testing a new secret weapon to reduce polluting emissions - sheep urine.

Stagecoach has fitted a bus in Winchester with a tank containing the waste, reports the Guardian.

The urine is sprayed into exhaust fumes to reduce emissions of harmful nitrous oxides.

Andrew Dyer, managing director of Stagecoach South, said: "It is a novel way of reducing pollution but we believe it will work.

"This is the latest in green technology and we believe it will help make our cities better places to be for the public."

The scheme is backed by Hampshire county council as part of an effort to reduce pollution. The bus carried its first passengers last month.

The urine is collected by the fertiliser industry from farmyard waste and refined into pure urea, which is then sold on to be used in the green engine technology.

Ammonia from the urea reacts with nitrous oxides in the exhaust fumes and converts them to nitrogen gas and water, which is released as steam.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: pollution; poweredbysheepwhiz; sheep; urea
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1 posted on 06/10/2005 12:27:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The urine is sprayed into exhaust fumes to reduce emissions of harmful nitrous oxides.

Yeah, and if I whizzed in the middle of the street I'd get arrested.

2 posted on 06/10/2005 12:29:09 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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That bus was just whizzin' down the highway, I'll bet!


3 posted on 06/10/2005 12:29:22 PM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: Red Badger

Sheep urine - is there nothing it can't do?


4 posted on 06/10/2005 12:29:37 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Red Badger

Awww piss.


5 posted on 06/10/2005 12:29:38 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Red Badger

Green technology? Sounds like yellow technology to me....


6 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:12 PM PDT by SavageRepublican (like springtime in Oklahoma...)
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Let the jokes and puns fly!

*****Ammonia from the urea reacts with nitrous oxides in the exhaust fumes and converts them to nitrogen gas and water, which is released as steam.*****

Until I got to that part, I was thinking "so theyd rather put up with a city that smells like piss was sprayed everywhere?"

must admit, its kinda cool...


7 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:31 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on.....)
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To: dead

Cougar urine is used in perfumes and eau de toilets.


8 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:45 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cheney for President - 2008)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Let the enviro-whackos try it in Vermont, then, but they'd better not bring it to LA. Grosssssssssssssssssssssssssss.


9 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:48 PM PDT by bboop
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To: Red Badger

Are you trying to pull the wool over our eyes?


10 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:51 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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Sheep urine cuts pollution

I've been saying this for years.

11 posted on 06/10/2005 12:30:57 PM PDT by SIDENET ("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.")
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Ammonia from the urea reacts with nitrous oxides in the exhaust fumes and converts them to nitrogen gas and water, which is released as steam.

Steamed sheep's piss. If that improves the air quality of a city then it's a city I'll avoid, thank you.

12 posted on 06/10/2005 12:31:12 PM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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must smell real nice. Why not just use ammonia?


13 posted on 06/10/2005 12:31:22 PM PDT by mowowie
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What they gonna do with sheep dip? Global warming solved.


14 posted on 06/10/2005 12:31:27 PM PDT by beltfed308 (Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunion.)
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The urine is sprayed into exhaust fumes... and onto breathing motorists and bicyclists traveling behind.
15 posted on 06/10/2005 12:31:38 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: SIDENET

LOL!


16 posted on 06/10/2005 12:31:58 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on.....)
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To: Red Badger

And you thought getting stuck behind a diesel was baaaad!


17 posted on 06/10/2005 12:32:44 PM PDT by Pylot
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Why stop there?

Wait till the brits see what a load of bullsh*t can do.


18 posted on 06/10/2005 12:32:48 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Blurblogger; speedy; LibertarianInExile; Joe 6-pack

Ewe all might want to whizz bah this thread.


19 posted on 06/10/2005 12:33:11 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez wasn't cool.)
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To: Obadiah

just imagine, theres gonna be a whole new category of mechanics who specialize in piss-mist repairs!


20 posted on 06/10/2005 12:33:26 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on.....)
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