Cow Farts? http://www.reuters.com/article/environme...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...

Is this the answer we have all been waiting for? Is this the cure for global warming? Is this the cure for our dependence on crude oil? Can environmentalists come up with anything more hilarious then this?

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

It%26#039;s the best way to deal with all that waste, as it will release methane whether we harvest it or not.

The real answer is to stop eating meat and reduce dairy, so this waste isn%26#039;t generated in the first place. 25% 3 Votes

Other Answers (7)

• Hey, that%26#039;s what my cars run on! Methane. Super cheap ($10 to fill up) and much better for the environment than gasoline cars, plus it%26#039;s domestically produced, so the money stays in our own economy. Now, go eat some beans and figure out how to compress your own farts into something cars can run on... www.NGVamerica.org
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  www.cngprices.com 17% 2 Votes
• so without farting you would die, just like cows would.people are going to start killing off the food chains because of farts .i happen to like beef, and milk , and cheese , and every yummy thing that comes with cows.... my point being we will kill ourselves from stupidity before this planet would 8% 1 Vote
• no! haha...but cow farts produce more methane than cars do because of what the farmers are feeding them.
  
  kobe beef is different though, they are fed very well;thus healthier farts. 8% 1 Vote
• how retarded. 0% 0 Votes
• LOL!!!! 17% 2 Votes
• nope this is the funniest load of crap I%26#039;ve ever seen lol
  pun intended 8% 1 Vote
• It is funny to think of cows running around with plastic bags attached to their a**es, but if there is an economical viable way to capture the methane they make and use it to produce energy, I%26#039;m all for it. I don%26#039;t think anyone is or has been proposing cow farts or any single alternative energy source as the sole solution to our dependence on fossil fuels, but we sure eat a lot of cows on this planet, it is energy-intensive and inefficient to grow them, and if there is a way to recycle some of that energy by trapping their emissions, so much the better, particularly in confined, corn-fed production of beef.
  
  One of the reasons confinement capture of methane emissions is more appealing to me personally than open pasture collection is I just can%26#039;t quite picture a herd of cows in a pasture with zip lock baggies attached to their nether regions sustaining the soothing pastoral look I personally admire. Imagine a picnic beneath the trees near such a pasture, and several especially long and loud farts blowing the baggies off the cows every few minutes where the baggies waft into the air and then settle down to earth like...uhhh...butterflies. I don%26#039;t know about you, but that would certainly disrupt the ambience of a picnic for me.
  
  Another-and more serious-reason confinement recapture of emissions is interesting though, is developing a more closed-loop agricultural process. Like ethanol-people are opposed to it because it isn%26#039;t as efficient as it can be yet, but the byproduct of corn ethanol production is still suitable for use as animal feed, which improves the net efficiency of raising corn itself. Since corn used to feed livestock is dried using propane, added efficiency would result if the methane exhausted by the livestock so fed could be used to fuel the driers...e.g. closing the loop. Imagine a corn drying structure next to a confinement operation where the methane captured is pumped right into the storage tanks outside and the gas is used to dry the corn after harvest. Aside from the savings of the propane itself, there are the costs of mining propane gas, refinement for use, and distribution, plus the net efficiency gain of recycling a portion of the fuel used to produce the corn to begin with...and if ethanol is used for at least part of THAT production and the byproduct of ethanol production is used as feed, you start to see tremendous savings of non-renewable energy sources as well as the attendant environmental benefits, global warming or no. In total, the concept is brilliant, and if they can pull it off, whomever cares to can eat all the red meat they care to until their blood turns to the consistency of molasses without far less concern about any impact their resulting morbid obesity will have on the environment.
  
  So I%26#039;m in favor of whatever paths researchers care to follow, and if they want to velcro zip locks to cow butts more power to them. I%26#039;ll try not to snicker in the interest of our common good...because I like a cheeseburger as much as the next guy. 17% 2 Votes