Green Ideas

Have you ever wondered if flatulence or eructation have any impact on the environment?  With 6 billion people on the planet and more on their way every day it is possible to image that there would be some impact however big or small.  Cal State Frenso, a university in the central valley of California along with Pacifi Gas and Electric are attempting to capture the flatulence of cows in order produce bio gas for use as energy.  One of the components of flatulence, of course is methane, a known  gas to the "greenhouse effect."   But the population of cattle is defeinately smaller than that of the human population and if it actually worth PG&E to investigate the use of bio gas of this type then there must enough quantity to make it potentially viable.  Livestock according to a study by Houweling (1999) livestock produce about 115 Tg/a or 19% of the total emissions.

To me this puts the human gasses in perspective.

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