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Let’s collect Cow Farts in the name of Science

A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar...A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in this picture taken July 4, 2008. Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming, strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps. Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming. Picture taken July 4, 2008.   REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci (ARGENTINA)

Sounds like an idea of a 12 year old scientist, but it’s actually true. Argentina like to know how much gas their 55 million cows produce and science wouldn’t be science if you wouldn’t measure it correctly.

In my mind I only see floating cows over Argentina, causing a panic when they cross over to the Falklands and capture the islands once and for all …

More? Telegraph - Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study

orangeguru (09-01 20:35) | No Comments | Permalink
Getting rid of Methane

Gimme Methane or gimme death!

There are incredible creature deep in the sea who survive by using methane. Since methane is one of the biggest green house gases we should watch these guys and learn from them. There are many deep sea critters that use methane to survive and transform it into energy - something we humans need.

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It wasn’t me!

Since we humans love meat, milk and cheese we need loads of cows - but their digestive system produces loads of farty methane. Cows contribute massively to the green houses gases.

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The mysterious stomach of Kangaroos.

This brings us to Kangaroos and a bacteria in their stomach that hardly produces any Methane. Scientists hope they can transplant that bacteria to cows and other life stock to reduce methane production.

orangeguru (12-10 20:41) | No Comments | Permalink



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