Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For purposes of the electricity production credit under the Internal Revenue Code, an "open-loop biomass system" is defined to include "agricultural livestock waste nutrients" (including bovine, swine, poultry and sheep "waste"). These terms sometimes have more casual descriptions in our firm, but then we're just insensitive clods. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug- > bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Zeitlin > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:25 PM > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] Re: Methane > > > On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > > > Four HUNDRED litres per day? > > > > Like the ads say: eat mor chiken > > > > > > geebee <geebee@geebeephoto.com> wrote: > > 60% of all fish caught is processed into fishmeal to feed them > > making them the biggest ocean predator. Just one of them gives off > > enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre > > bottles. That's 18% of the total greenhouse gases per annum. > > More greenhouse gas emissions than all the transport on earth - > > planes, trains and cars. > > > I understand that the gasses from chicken droppings were collected > and used to fuel cars in the UK during WW2. If some clever > businessman can figure out a way to collect and market the steer's > methane output it may well be the answer to the energy crisis. We > could substitute cow power for horsepower. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information