You can now choose to power your car with degrading cow manure! I know, it sounds nasty, but it is not the direct cow manure, you will be using. Just leave the energy gererating job to the Western Washington University students.
The students of this University extract corrosives out of methane, which produce naturally during the degradation of real cow manure. Thus, the required energy can be produced to power cars and other machines.
This process of producing fuel for car has three ecological benefits.
Firstly, it is highly ecofriendly a process, as methane and its byproducts that are released into the air are not in its most harmful form.
Secondly, the harmful stuff, methane in manure cannot leach into the water supply as it is used up to power cars.
And, lastly, but not the least, the methane gas, whch is used in cars burns cleaner, generating less greenhouse gases compared to gasoline.
The students extract methane by this process using an anaerobic ingester. Moreover, the ingester is built from pvc pipe and spare parts.
According to Seattle PI:
An anaerobic digester on Darryl Vander Haak’s dairy farm in Lynden processes manure from about 1,000 cows into electricity to sell to Puget Sound Energy. At full capacity, the digester can produce enough energy to power 180 homes . . . Waste produced by 15 cows has been enough to run the institute’s natural-gas car for 250 to 300 miles, Wilson said.
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