I recently read where cows pollute more than suv's. The methane gas is the problem, why not figure out how to capture this gas, we capture all the solids and liquids from cows, why not gas, I know it is burnable as fuel. We could capture it and burn it in suv's. This could create a new cottage industry. "Got Gas"
2006-12-29 03:30:33 · 8 answers · asked by Robert D 4 in Environment
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of on-farm methane digesters around the world collecting methane from the manure of cows and pigs and burning it to generate electricity, some are also using it for tractors and other vehicles. The problem is that because of efficiencies of scale and relatively low prices for electricity most small farms can't afford to buy the equipment needed to do this.
2006-12-29 12:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dale K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay now, mentally picture the research project that came up with the cow gas hypothesis...Picture a bunch of vegan, tree hugging pseudo-scientists in white coats shoving hoses up the rears of a cow herd. Imagine the data collected...Herefords produce 10ppm more methane than Guernseys and Holsteins produce 20ppm more than Herefords. There are twice as many Charolais than Angus' and three times as many Angus as Jerseys so the world's cows collectively fart enough to blast the Earth clear to the Milky Way and back again. Yes, we probably should collect it and shoot Al Gore into another solar system.
2006-12-29 04:43:07 · answer #2 · answered by Spud55 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Whoever told you that cows pollute more than suv's filled you full of cow farts. Think about it...cows have been around much longer than suv's. We have done fine for the last, oh, 400 million years or so that cows have been around, so why are we worried now?
2006-12-29 03:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by countryboy_ga1014 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok, so now cows are supposed to go around with bags sticking out of their butts? How could you possibly collect methane gas from cows?
2006-12-29 03:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by paloma 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe that ozone reacts with methane in the upper atmosphere, how i am not sure. If it or something else did not clear it (degrade to CO2 and H2O) we would all have been suffocated or blown up by now by that build up. If lightning creates ozone......
2006-12-29 03:39:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not feasible. However, methane from garbage dumps is now being collected.
It is feasible to build sewage digesters, and make natural gas from our sewage, reducing the load on non-renewable sources, such as oil.
This will not happen as long as the oil cartell (us, not Arabs) are allowed to stop all who try it.
2006-12-29 04:25:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
why not collect it from humans too?
there's more economically feasable ways to create methane. we capture the solids because all it takes is one bloke with a shovel to collect fertilizer. with gasses, this is a bit more tricky.
2006-12-29 03:38:33 · answer #7 · answered by Nick C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure you can be the one to go around sticking the methane collectors up cows butts
2006-12-29 03:32:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋