Animal poo powers zoo


	Animal poo powers zoo

cedricj

11-7-2007 7:21 AM

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think green!

cedricj says:

Just think if they hooked up an entire city to a biogas generator! electricity fo years and years!!!!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8dd2d73c-3fb3-4911-87aa-744283c07dab/84170D87-A73E-4C4E-AEA8-FB79B7DA241D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.greendaily.com/2007/11/03/animal-poo-powers-zoo/" href="http://www.greendaily.com/2007/11/03/animal-poo-powers-zoo/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.greendaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.greendaily.com/2007/11/03/animal-poo-powers-zoo/"><DIV class="post"><H2 class="posttitle"><SPAN id="ppt1029162">Animal poo powers zoo</SPAN></H2><P class="byline"><EM>by</EM> <STRONG><A href="http://www.greendaily.com/bloggers/jonathon-morgan">Jonathon Morgan</A></STRONG><BR /><DIV>Nov 3rd 2007 @ 3:02PM</DIV><BR />Filed under: <A href="http://www.greendaily.com/category/news/">News</A></P><DIV id="1029162" class="postbody"><P><A href="http://www.sxc.hu/photo/784083"><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.greendaily.com/media/2007/11/elephantpoopmor.jpg" alt="" /></A>If you talk to Chuck Siegel, deputy director of animal management for the Dallas Zoo, he'll tell you that "poo and pee is our bread and butter." </p> <P>Sounds a little gross, but it's totally true. Animal waste, rather than a useless byproduct, destined to take up space in a landfill somewhere, is instead <A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21594049/">going to be a source of energy for the zoo</A>. Officials are implementing a plan that would take cardboard, tree limbs, and their never-ending supply of animal poop, and run it through a biogas generator that will help power several buildings.</p> <P>With a total price tag of around $1 million, it's not exactly cheap. But given the amount of money the facility will save on power, zoo officials estimate that the project will pay for itself within ten years. Holy crap!</P></DIV><DIV class="postmeta"><A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21594049/">Related Link</A><DIV class="navbar clearfix"><UL><LI class="permalink"><A title="Permanent link to this entry" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.greendaily.com/2007/11/03/animal-poo-powers-zoo/">Permalink</A></LI><LI class="email-this"><A title="Send this entry to a friend via email" href="http://www.greendaily.com/forward/1029162/">Email this</A></LI><LI class="comments"><A title="View reader comments on this entry" href="http://www.greendaily.com/2007/11/03/animal-poo-powers-zoo/#comments">Comments (<EM>0</EM>)</A></LI></UL></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84170D87-A73E-4C4E-AEA8-FB79B7DA241D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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