Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Smelly Truth

Over the course of this weekend, many strange things happened. Such as while having guests at my house I thought it would be a great time to catch up on some magazine reading. After reading "Good House Keeping", or something along those lines, I cracked open "Popular Science". I'm not sure how many active "Popular Science" readers we have in the class, so for those who didn't read this months magazine there was an interesting article about fuel.

The whole gas issue is a tired subject and I try to tune it out, though this article was an entirely different approach that I found very interesting. Instead of heating our houses with the typical fuel, use the waste products of various animals to heat homes! In the tank the bacteria will break down the animal waste and release natural gas methane. Though this is cool and really interested me, I will not go out and buy an elephant to heat my house...not happening. But, if someone else does it I think that's great.


-Riz

3 Comments:

Blogger mollyandkari said...

the gas situation is tiresome, but its always interesting to hear about new alternatives...animal waste is definatley innovative...but wouldnt it smell?

~mr

October 6, 2008 at 4:23 PM  
Blogger sobereyedconclusions said...

exactly

October 6, 2008 at 10:57 PM  
Blogger mollyandkari said...

huh, then somehow i dont see that really going anywhere..

October 7, 2008 at 6:35 PM  

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