Scene and heard

An article on the BBC website today cites a study in Aberystwyth, Wales. Apparently, Cows and Sheep produce 3% of all Greenhouse Gases in the UK and 5% in Wales – in all 30% of all Methane emissions in the UK come from these animals! Apparently, a cow can produce up to 500 litres (132 US Gallons) of methane, which is 23 times more potent in terms of greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, daily. Although most of this comes from belches, I still think that the main lesson I got from this article is to never stand behind a cow.

Apparently, Garlic can cut these emissions down by 50%! I wonder if that works for humans! Damn! If so, can you imagine what chili would be like without garlic?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/6288012.stm

I had a thought that balloons could be attached to cow behinds, but then an image appeared in my head of cows flying. The balloons would get more full and the cows would fly higher until they stopped producing gas due to lack of food intake. I think that while some people might be initially amused by the sight, this would actually be a bad thing. But I would far rather we found some way of harvesting cow methane than that we waste fields growing corn for production of methane while people in the world starve.

I just googled ‘corn methane’ and found an article which details how corn cobs can store gases at 180 times their own natural volume. Any chance of shoving corn cobs up cows backsides?

http://www.energygrind.com/?p=49