[oowolf]

Lethal manure

[Carlhole]

"Lethal Manure"

Hmmmmmm.....

I wonder what sort of Action /Adventure films we should expect from Hollywood post-peak?

[JoeW]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '&')quot;Lethal Manure" Hmmmmmm..... I wonder what sort of Action /Adventure films we should expect from Hollywood post-peak?

[savethehumans]

Definitely, we're gonna get more "Mad Max" types of films. **s i g h**

[gg3]

Farm worker gets in his own way as he tries to dump an 8-ton load of manure from a tractor-towed tipping trailer, and suffocates to death under the enormous pile of shit.

One tragic death for a man, one giant metaphor for mankind.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Was it an accident? or was it self-immanuration?

[MyOtherID]

[web]http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14449289.htm[/web]

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')heoretically, the resulting millions of barrels of crude a day could make a significant dent in America's dependence on nonrenewable, and often imported, oil.

[MyOtherID]

Mmmmm, bacon!



You ain't gonna get rid of piggeries, gal.

[Ludi]

Doesn't mean I have to support pig factories or anything to do with them.

[ThunderSnow]

Who.
Run..... Bartertown?

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I guess there wil be plenty of work Post Peak in Underworld. Unemployed dot-commers fighting over who gets to be called Pig Killer.

[Pops]

I read the other day that of the 10 million bushels of corn grown in the US, half goes to animal feed and half of that goes to hogs – that’s a lot of corn.

Now the hog farmer sells the manure to the corn farmer to fertilize the corn but if we start to make oil from manure (so we aren't dependant on that nasty frreign oil) fertilizer will need to come from somewhere else – maybe foreign nat gas perhaps?

Lots of ripples in the old pond…

[GoIllini]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')heoretically, the resulting millions of barrels of crude a day could make a significant dent in America's dependence on nonrenewable, and often imported, oil.

[grillzilla]

hmm, a slightly sickening thought but .. if it works with pig poop, would it work with human waste?

If I remember right the main sewage plant in Los Angeles processes 500 MILLION gallons of sewage a day. They have a big problem getting rid of the mostly dried, treated solids.

[Zardoz]

Ethanol plant will use mounds of manure $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he plant will gasify 1 billion pounds of manure a year to make 100 million gallons of ethanol. The manure will save the plant nearly 365,000 barrels of oil equivalent per year.

[TheDude]

National Geographic Story.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')anda has plans to build similar facilities in Haskell County, Kansas, and Yuma, Colorado.

In Mead, Nebraska, a small town of about 600 people 30 miles west of Omaha (Nebraska map), E3 Biofuels is taking the idea of cow power a step further.

Their new facility, set to begin operation in October, will integrate cattle and ethanol production in a highly efficient "closed loop" system.

The E3 operation is smaller than the Panda facilities. Built around an existing feedlot, 30,000 head of cattle will provide the energy needed to produce 24 million gallons (91 million liters) of ethanol a year.

Cattle will be kept in long, covered enclosures with slotted floors, and manure falling through will be pumped directly into the processing facility.

E3 CEO Dennis Langley says collecting the manure immediately eliminates the common problem of water pollution caused by manure left standing in feedlots or spread across farmland.

[ohanian]

This is a BULLSHIT story.

[FrankRichards]

Don't forget however that methane is natural gas, and can be (and is) sold as such. This affects the economics, and might be a better energy return as well.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ohanian', '[')size=200]This is a BULLSHIT story.[/size]

[Gerben]

Using cow manure for the production of biogas is not new. This is already being done in several developing countries as well as in some European. This biogas much like landfill gas. Many countries are stimulating this as a green replacement of natural gas.