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To: Jaysun
We need to figure out a way to capture livestock flatulence. Maybe a diaper or bag of some sort, I dunno.
Posts like this always make me smile:

"Gas Bag Car" -- a farmer's reply to gasoline rationing in WWI UK
(it's a Buick; although stories circulated in the U.S. at the time to the contrary, it was likely powered by coal-gas rather than cow-produced methane)

38 posted on 06/13/2007 8:50:47 PM PDT by nicollo (All economics are politics)
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To: nicollo
"Posts like this always make me smile:"

It makes more sense then you might think. Home sized biodigesters to produce methane are quite popular in India and other places and make perfect sense on a larger scale in some industries here.
39 posted on 06/13/2007 8:55:45 PM PDT by ndt
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