> 3/5/2008: Commentary: "Cow Pies"=New Energy Source.......
>
> Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football
> fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new
> energy.
>
> On a dairy farm in the Golden State's agricultural heartland, utility
> PG&E Corp began on Tuesday producing natural gas derived from manure,
> in what it hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if
> not entirely clean, energy.
>
> The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, the brainchild of life- long
> dairyman David Albers, aims to provide the natural gas needed to power
> 1,200 homes a day, Albers said at the facility's inauguration
> ceremony.
>
> "When most people see a pile of manure, they see a pile of manure. We
> saw it as an opportunity for farmers, for utilities, and for ...