[geeks] ethanol...

[wa2egp at att.net]

> > > Also, what about that company that is opening up power plants that
> > > are supposed to burn most any biomass into various forms of fuel for
> > > burning.  Supposedly they say every year we throw millions of BTUs of
> > > energy away as chicken scraps, "waste fuel", and other things.
> > 
> > Same outfit, I think.  They have a pilot plant in Philadelphia, and are
> > building a much bigger one next door to a Tyson plant in the midwest
> > that's going to render some absurd quantity of turkey guts per day into
> > oil.
> 
> Yeah... they said that we are throwing away cities worth of power every
> year in check guts alone.
> 
> After reading a recent Almanac and the section listing the current US
> domestic animal population, I believe it.  I believe the figure for
> chickens was in the billions.
> 
> That just blows my mind.
> 
> Cows were in the millions.

Think of all the methane produced and released from cows.  Brings new 
purpose to "fart conduit" (ducking)