When one visualizes alternative energy, often the images that one sees are either large windmills in a distant field of grass or fancy looking displays of solar panels on rooftops. Add a new image to your brain. Crap! Chicken crap to be exact. Yes, the Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg has unveiled a biomass power plant that exclusively converts chicken manure into power. The plant cost approximately 150 million Euros to build and converts more than 440,000 tons of chicken manure into energy annually. The plant extracts the methane from the excrement and converts it into approximately 270 kilowatt hours of electricity. The plant is carbon neutral as well because after the methane has been extracted from the manure, the remains are ignited and the ashes are used to create fertilizers and various other agricultural products. Amazing!
"Those humans always take so much crap from us!"
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on Sep 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
This is incredible! Have you seen any other animal crap used as an energy source?
on Sep 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
If the only world could create energy like this. Imagine the possibilities!