Argentina - Flatulent Bovines to Power the World!!! - Page 1
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author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 06:30:32 am
content: Greeting EEVBees:Argentina - Flatulent Bovines to Power the World!!!--HuffnPuff with ever an ear to the ground for green, is reporting that boffins working for Botox Evita in Argentina (you know, the country that used to have a railroad) have developed a system to harvest methane from cows.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/cow-methane-gas_n_5169903.html"Tubes connected to the cows' digestive tracks are collected and then stored in the backpack. Scientists say that the farts collected each day could produce enough energy to run a car or refrigerator for an entire 24 hours."--Just put ol' Bossy in the bed of the pick-em-up truck with a bale of hay and you are good to go."A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."Mary Jane "Mae" West 1893 - 1980Best RegardsClear Ether

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 09:19:02 am
content: A bit late for April 1st gags. Anyway most of the methane produced by cows is from burp's not fart's, and the system as described sounds like it requires some surgical work, can't see animal welfare groups standing still on that one.

author: SgtRock
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timestamp: April 19, 2014, 11:31:18 am
content: Greeting EEVBees:--What I found most humorous was the contention that 30 liters of methane, could power a refrigerator for 24 hours. Then the statement that would even make Al Gore and Amory Lovins blush, that the same 30 liters of methane would also power a car for 24 hours. It does seem likely that the reporter, harrumph, was challenged in the numeracy dept. Headline - "Argentina reinvades Faulkland Islands using CPHC - Cow Powered Hover Craft"."They didn't know where they was goin, but they knew that where they was wasn't it"Richard Myrle Buckley - Lord Buckley 1906 - 1960Best RegardsClear Ether

author: eurofox
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timestamp: April 19, 2014, 11:38:18 am
content: Is needed for some humans as well

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 11:50:39 am
content: Aside from the other points...."Scientists say that the farts collected each day could produce enough energy to run a car or refrigerator for an entire 24 hours."Take the Model S or Leaf for an example, about 200-300Wh/mile. A fridge would use maybe 100Wh per hour. That's quite a wide margin of error there.

author: eurofox
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 12:11:29 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on April 19, 2014, 11:50:39 amMaybe by changing the food, to drive a car switch to onions and cabbage and for the refrigerator feed with grass

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 08:58:34 pm
content: I can't believe this, I had nearly this exact idea the other day, though my idea was less invasive.I thought about it after Dave's gas detector video. Just use one of the gas detectors and when it senses something coming out of the cow's rear, it starts a pump. Since methane floats and hot methane floats faster, you'd just need a funnel-like device above the opening to capture the output.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2014, 09:01:09 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on April 19, 2014, 11:50:39 amThe error is probably bean or broccoli related.