{"id":88,"date":"2007-08-07T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-08-07T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:55:28","slug":"power-the-future-through-cow-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/power-the-future-through-cow-manure","title":{"rendered":"Power The Future, Through Cow Manure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(via IsraGood<\/a>) <\/p>\n

With many governments pursuing new ways to power their cities via green energy, it looks like they soon may have another option to add to their list.<\/p>\n

While most people think of cows as a \u201cunconverted\u201d forms of lunch and dinner, these harmless beasts may be able to energize our communities through the smelly presents that they often leave behind.<\/p>\n

(Globes Online<\/a>) GES said that the Hefer Valley plant is the first large-scale plant of its kind in Israel, and one of the first in the world. The plant utilizes 600 tons of manure a day. The manure is sterilized, and the solid and liquid waste are then processed to produce methane, which drives the generators to make electricity.<\/p>\n

Granite Hacarmel CEO Amiaz Sagis said, \u201cThis is unquestionably an important milestone. This facility fits in with Granite Hacarmel\u2019s strategy to invest in infrastructures and ecology. The company is also investing resources to develop alternative energy, water treatment, and desalination.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ironically this whole development began when the Hefer Valley Cooperative Society was ordered to find a solution towards reducing the pollution being produced by 12,000 cows. It seems that after some head scratching, this power plant was built, allowing the community to not only reduce pollution, but find a unique way at keeping the lights on.<\/p>\n

Although many nations would benefit from turning cow manure (or sheep, horse, camel, etc.), there probably is not enough of this stuff to both fuel our planet and make our gardens grow. However, if researchers found a way to turn \u201chuman manure\u201d into energy, we could ultimately find a renewable energy source that can keep up with our ever growing population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(via IsraGood) With many governments pursuing new ways to power their cities via green energy, it looks like they soon may have another option to add to their list. While most people think of cows as a \u201cunconverted\u201d forms of lunch and dinner, these harmless beasts may be able to energize our communities through the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}