California Cow Power: Poop Pays

First cow gas may be the cause of global warming and now cow poop can be turned into fuel electricity. You think that cows are being used and abused for a personal agenda? And where are cows' first amendment rights?

The California Energy Commission has released a report on a program that transforms cow manure into power by extracting methane - a potent greenhouse gas - from bovine poop and using it to fuel electricity-generating turbines. The conclusion: Cow power can make money for dairies and make them energy self-sufficient as well as provide electricity to the grid. But - there's always a but - the Byzantine regulatory structure that favors entrenched utilities is frustrating the widespread adoption of bovine biogas.

Cow power is an alternative energy fuel that should be the perfect solution to a host of environmental problems. It takes cow manure, a widespread source of global warming - there are a couple million cows in California alone - and an environmental waste that costs farms millions of dollars a year to dispose of, and turns it into a clean, green source of electricity.

http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/01/california_cow_.html