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Thai Farmer Converts Cow Dung to Fuel for Motorbike & Cooker

Green Lifestyle  (tags: energy, interesting )

Adler
- 75 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
This motorcycle is not ordinary. It is a life partner for Chaiwut Silapasamosorn, a Phuket farmer. What is extraordinary for this vehicle is that it does not use petrol to get around.
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jenny dooley (243)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 4:42 pm
Thanks Adler - I love this news. How I wish that western civilizations would adopt this simpler attitude to life. There's a video at the link below, which you might have to copy and paste into your browser.

http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/previewnews2.php?news_id=380&news_headline=MiniVDO:%20Special%20-%20Phuket%20farmer%20converts%20cow%20dung%20to%20fuel%20for%20motorbike%20&%20cooker
 

Madeleine L. (11)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 6:38 pm
The knowledege necessary to make every farm in North America, or even the world, self-sufficient in energy, has existed for decades. Dairy farmers in the US and in Canada have formed organizations to help each other in the production of methane from manure through an anaerobic process that leaves no dangerous or smelly residue or pollution(quite the opposite). This technology can also be used with garbage and with city sewage. It is not complicated, as can be seen in this story. India uses it to power small towns and outlying areas from their own waste. Farmers with large farms are selling electricity BACK to the Grid!! What could be a more elegant solution, even if it seems "distasteful" to most people..? ps methane is 20 times more carbon heavy than carbon dioxide.....
 
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