Why don't we "Matrix" the cows, for power?

Posted by Ken Maltby on July 1, 2008, 4:23 pm

  We already have them connected to milking machines.

  Why not add a methane collection tube/system, as well?  It could
feed directly to a digestor for the liquid crap and have the gas farts
collected with that produced by the digestor.

   We are giving them water beds now, couldn't we design a pod for
them?

   If we couldn't provide them with a fake world to live in, perhaps
just stimulating the pleasure centers in their brains would work.

   PETA may have an objection, but they don't want me eating a
burger made from one either.

Luck;
     Ken

Posted by Eeyore on July 1, 2008, 7:43 pm

Ken Maltby wrote:

Apparently they 'burp' most of the methane.

Graham

Posted by Ken Maltby on July 1, 2008, 7:50 pm

So the guy who invents the patented "Cow Burp Collection
System" would get the Nobel prize.

Posted by daestrom on July 2, 2008, 5:22 pm

Ken Maltby wrote:

Some have talked about keeping them under a tin-roof like structure.
Methane is lighter than air, so collect it from the ridge vent of the roof.
Don't think anyones actually done it, but...

daestrom

Posted by Ken Maltby on July 2, 2008, 5:38 pm

  I wonder which University got the grant for the "Cow Burp versus
Cow Fart Study" that established that factoid?  I think I may have met
the guy who probably got his doctorate for that one, or something
similar.  Let's see what would that be "Doctor of Bovine Studies" ?
Wouldn't want to be the undergrad lab assistant on that one.

Luck;
     Ken