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February 5, 2003
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Sacramento Business Journal - by Kathy Robertson Staff writer
Cows have started producing energy in Sacramento County.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District began using power from a manure digester at Cal-Denier Dairy on Monday. It’s the first manure digester in the county.
About 120 pounds of cow urine and manure are stored in a covered lagoon and gradually releases methane, a greenhouse gas and energy source. The gas is sent to a 65-kilowatt generator, where it is burned to produce power.
SMUD pays about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour for the power and contributed 13 percent of the cost of the $700,000 digester system. Other funding came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Energy Commission
once a cow town, always a cow town...
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12:15 am
February 5, 2003
Offline "Dan-H" wrote: About 120 pounds of cow urine and manure are stored in a covered lagoon and gradually releases methane, a greenhouse gas and energy source. The gas is sent to a 65-kilowatt generator, where it is burned to produce power.
120 lbs of cow poop and pee driving a 65-kilowatt generator? Must be a typo.
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2:58 am
Small, distributed generation like this is the future. If we all had solar panels, Brad would be out of a job. 😀
3:39 am
February 5, 2003
Offline "Bender" wrote: Small, distributed generation like this is the future. If we all had solar panels, Brad would be out of a job. 😀
or he'd be in a different marketplace ePowerBarter.com
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July 10, 2003
Offline Justin is our local crap expert 
He's been so quiet, I'm going back to, "Justin, who the heck is Justin?"
I used to wheel a lot. . .
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