Plying Poop Power in Portsmouth
- (Xconomy)

“Hogs and dairy cows in the United States produce nearly 3 billion pounds of manure a day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s over 1 trillion pounds per year—an unimaginable, truly Augean heap of waste. Unfortunately, farmers can’t simply divert a few rivers, as Hercules did, to wash it all away. But technology is creating some promising alternatives, and a Portsmouth, NH, company called Environmental Power is exploring one of them. It’s building North America’s largest facility for producing pipeline-quality natural gas from cow manure.“

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Well, Bio-diesel is something that’s been used in India for a long time. They have alot of cows apparently. The point is, this is nothing new. I didn’t think there was a big plant in the United States because well…poop smells.

However, if I remember correctly, one of the major contributing factors to the smell of poop is also what makes this such an ‘appealing’ alternative energy source. That…and the fact that there is an abundance of the stuff lying around…

The article focuses on the economical viability of such an endeavor.