Cow Power
Abstract
The world population is expected to continue to grow. With growth, comes additional demand on our world energy resources. Most of energy source today however are from fossil fuel. Fossil fuel unfortunately is a non-renewable energy resource and it is completely unsustainable. The population in the United States alone is expected to more than double by 2050.What are we to do about our future energy demand? One of the answers to this fuel problem is bio-fuels. However, most of bio-fuels today are produced from the land and we will need all the land we can just in order for us to feed the world. The question now is, what is the solution? The solution is “Cow Power.” Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week: cow shit. The more politically correct term however is cow manure, but for those of us who have drove through or live near a dairy farm, we wouldn’t dare call the smell anything else but cow shit. Unbelievably, some creative genius has figured out a way to put this bad smells to better use. Cow power is a new undertaking of company like Elite Energy LLC and has gain popularity as a source of energy and supplemental incomes for dairy farmers all across the United States. As a matter of fact, there are methane digestion initiatives going on all over the world. The adaptability of anaerobic digestion process makes cow manure a viable option for producing electricity with minimal environment impacts.
Cow Power One cow can generate over 30 gallons of manure a day. That is a lot of poop especially considering the average herd size of cows on an American’s dairy farm is 500 to 1,000. If you multiply that by thousands of dairy farmers across the country, there is over a billion ton of manure annually, which in turn releases large of amount of greenhouse gas into our atmosphere. This is important because methane on dairy farms account for majority of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. If methane digester were installed on just most of California’s
The world population is expected to continue to grow. With growth, comes additional demand on our world energy resources. Most of energy source today however are from fossil fuel. Fossil fuel unfortunately is a non-renewable energy resource and it is completely unsustainable. The population in the United States alone is expected to more than double by 2050.What are we to do about our future energy demand? One of the answers to this fuel problem is bio-fuels. However, most of bio-fuels today are produced from the land and we will need all the land we can just in order for us to feed the world. The question now is, what is the solution? The solution is “Cow Power.” Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week: cow shit. The more politically correct term however is cow manure, but for those of us who have drove through or live near a dairy farm, we wouldn’t dare call the smell anything else but cow shit. Unbelievably, some creative genius has figured out a way to put this bad smells to better use. Cow power is a new undertaking of company like Elite Energy LLC and has gain popularity as a source of energy and supplemental incomes for dairy farmers all across the United States. As a matter of fact, there are methane digestion initiatives going on all over the world. The adaptability of anaerobic digestion process makes cow manure a viable option for producing electricity with minimal environment impacts.
Cow Power One cow can generate over 30 gallons of manure a day. That is a lot of poop especially considering the average herd size of cows on an American’s dairy farm is 500 to 1,000. If you multiply that by thousands of dairy farmers across the country, there is over a billion ton of manure annually, which in turn releases large of amount of greenhouse gas into our atmosphere. This is important because methane on dairy farms account for majority of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. If methane digester were installed on just most of California’s