California cows start passing gas to the grid


	California cows start passing gas to the grid

Deepti

3-5-2008 7:48 AM

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cows, energy, manure, grid, power, biogas, california

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Both BioEnergy Solutions and PG&E are actively courting dairy farmers, whose cow manure is now simply being used as fertilizer, allowing the methane to be released into the air as a greenhouse gas.

Still, for now there are plenty of dairies to get on board. A second dairy in Fresno county has already agreed to join the Vintage Dairy project and Albers estimated gas from the two dairies combined could power 2,500 homes a day. The Vintage Dairy facility could accommodate gas from up to two or three more dairies, depending on the size, officials said

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3-5-2008 8:01 AM

alanocu

reuters headline rewritten: California Power Grid is Full of Sh*t ----- I'm jus sayin'?

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