Cargill Generates Sustainable Biogas from Cow Pies

[Fledermaus]

It looks like our energy future is at least partly in the hands of cows, now that agribusiness giant Cargill has joined the manure-to-biogas gold rush. The company has just announced that its second biogas project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 Farm in Jerome, Idaho. Using manure produced by the farm’s 6,000 cows, the biogas project is generating enough renewable methane to make electricity for about 1,100 typical homes. That’s just the latest installation in a trend that is seeing manure-to-biogas facilities popping up on farms across the United States like mushrooms after a rain.

http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/29/cargill-generates-sustainable-biogas-from-cow-pies/

[kestrel91316]

1. Cargill is a few years behind the curve. Los Angeles has been generating

sustainable biogas from "people pies" for 50-60 years at the Hyperion waste treatment facility (where my poo goes).

[bemildred]

2. Well, there is a hell of a lot of shit being generated out there, so we might as well use it.

For fertilizer, for biogas, for something.