It’s a gas!
01/27/2008 @ 6:00 am
Here is some news that is sure to please some JAPUNDIT fans, a team from Obihiro University of Agriculture in Japan believes they have come up with a way to neutralize the gasses being produced by the world’s 1.5 billion flatulent bovines.
Junichi Takahashi’s discovery could, he says, dramatically reduce the environmental damage caused by the world’s cattle herds, whose collective flatulence is thought to account for 5pc of all greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the team from Obihiro University of Agriculture, a few simple food additives, costing about 75c each day per cow, could remove virtually all the methane from a herd’s daily belches.
75 cent a day, hmmm, high yield milk cows produce 26 l milk a day, so that’s 3 cent more pr. liter milk at the producers end whick would be about 10-15 cent more once it reaches the consumer and here the growrh fase from calf to cow has not been included. My guess is that this will not be more than a niche product for many years to come and it will take punitive CO2 charges to kick it into the mainstream. No financial incentive = little public interest. Though you might get the people who buy up CO2 quotas so they can hang a nice diploma on the wall to show their aquaintances how environmentally concious they are. Though of course fart-free milk doesn’t keep as well as a plaque on the wall.
In any case you just gotta love any article with the words ‘collective flatulence’
January 27th, 2008 at 9:54 amI’m not spending a penny more on my wagyu just so the cows don’t fart.
Anyway, this seems a variation of the butterflies in Beijing theory:
A cow fart in Fukuyama causes all of Manhattan to sink.
Anyway, I saw Manhattan under water in some film…and I like the idea of taking a cruise ship up Park Avenue.
January 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pmCan it be used against human gas?
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