Cow-Fart Storing Tank To Stop Greenhouse Gases
Thursday, July 10, 2008 14:41
The fart mostly consists of a gas called Methane, which happens to be 23 times easier to trap heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. One of the most fart producing living beings on this planet is the cow, which produces 800-1,000 litres of gas every day! Considering that Argentina alone has 55 million cows grazing its lands then we are talking about a lot of emissions.
The solution to this comes from an Argentinean researcher, Guillermo Berra from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology. He came up with a plastic tank strapped on the cows back with a hose pipe up the cows rear, that collects the farts. Not sure where this gas will end up, perhaps at a Methane-burning electricity generating plant, but I sure hope they keep this idea away from humans.
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