Cow Power

I read a really gross but interesting article about using cow manure as electricity. The Audet family at Blue Spruce farm owns 1000 cows, and each cow makes 30 gallons of dung every day. At the end of the day they take a giant pooper scooper machine and put it in a giant, concrete, swimming pool-like machine called the Digester. The Digester works by capturing the methane gas that the dung releases and uses it to power generators. The Audets make so much energy they have lots of extra energy to sell.

After they used all the energy from the manure, they take all the liquid from the manure and spread it over their fields as fertilizer. Then they take the dried out dung flakes and make beds for the cows. That sounds disgusting, but apparently the cows like it. I recommend reading this article, but only on an empty stomach.