Posted on 03/30/2017 8:59:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
Imagine what the brontosaurus farts did to global warming
“Nye is not a scientist. If he were, hed know that cows dont make methane; the bacteria in the cows rumen make methane.”
Sometimes, it is best to read the article before posting ...
Think of it as "renewable energy" ...
LOL, I find this idea quite interesting actually. I have always thought that if by some bad luck, AGW were REAL, we could solve it through technology.
Most of the methane emitted by cows, or any ruminant, does not come from the flatus, but from eructation. They do not fart the methane, they belch it out. What comes out of the anus is primarily carbon dioxide and water vapor. The fermentation tank in the gut of every ruminant, the rumen, is where the methane is generated, and the up pressure is relieved by the gas escaping through the gullet, which has an additional groove, which allows the cow to breathe the methane out with the exhaled breath.
Methane is much lighter than the other components of atmosphere, and rises quickly once released, so there is actually very little accumulation close to the earth’s surface. Unlike water vapor, which has a similar molecular weight (and also rises quickly once volatilized), it does not go through a “heat of vaporization” which draws heat out of the surrounding atmosphere, and therefore has none of the thermodynamic effects of ice-water-water vapor phase transformation.
Bill Nye actually knows less science than would be taught in a high school general science class circa 1950. Not that the course is taught anywhere nearly as well as it was maybe fifty years ago.
“Sometimes, it is best to read the article before posting ...”
Torn between logic and FReeper tradition.
At least Bill Nye practices what he preaches. He quit farting in 2002.
Be has a BS degree....................
:)
The worlds population of termites puts out 10X the CO2 than all of mankind (by weight). What are we going to do about them?
LOL !!
Maybe they can burn off the methane..maybe implant a battery powered spark plug in the cows butt
I have visions of a field of cows walking by farting fire
Could they do a GMO hybrid of grass that was like Bean-0?
“Did dinosaurs toot?”
Now I know how brontosauras (thunder lizard) got it’s name.
Why not develop an organism that lives on methane and is a delicious side dish for our steak?
Well that explains why Bill Nye doesn’t like farts. His don’t make any noise.
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