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This would be useful for dairy farmers. Addition revenue for cow farts and greenhouse gas reduction.
by abirch 4y ago
This would be useful for dairy farmers. Addition revenue for cow farts and greenhouse gas reduction.
- ekianjo 4y agoHow do you collect the methane though ?
- abirch 4y agoI was wrong, the methane capture that exists is methane from the manure. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1077235578 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1077235578
- abirch 4y agoFound this for cows' burps https://www.zelp.co/ https://www.zelp.co/
- bertil 4y agoMost of the current collection is from manure. Methane is lighter than oxygen and azote, so you should be able to collect some at the highest point of an air-tight roof of a cow shed. Not sure how much that would represent compared to manure.
- ncmncm 4y agoRanchers interested in extra revenue would put up solar panels in pasture. Cows keep the weeds down. Future generations will think solar farms in the desert were a dumb idea. But it is easy to get investor money for that, because investors don't know what a poor choice of placement that is.
- astrange 4y agoSolar panels in the desert keep away NIMBYs (sometimes) and are good for the local wildlife by providing shade, especially if you can put them over what water sources there are.
- ncmncm 4y agoYou do much, much better floating them on reservoirs. Los Angeles has not floated them in its reservoir filled with black plastic balls yet for probably NIMBYish reasons, but it will keep coming up every year.