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		China loves its pork, but when their droppings become an issue, hey why not make it into a fuel? (news.yahoo.com)		32
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I_Am_Weasel		2012-05-02 01:48:45 PM

Two pigs enter, one pig leaves

gopher321		2012-05-02 02:14:50 PM

How do you say "poop thread" in Mandarin?

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-05-02 02:33:57 PM

Max: "Bullsh*t."

Auntie Entity: "Pigsh*t."

Who run Bartertown?

Treygreen13		2012-05-02 02:39:13 PM

whither_apophis		2012-05-02 02:42:55 PM

But what do they do with the Chinese doo?

DrZiffle		2012-05-02 02:48:08 PM

Is ween ween situation.

meat0918		2012-05-02 02:50:41 PM

Sick?

This is Spiffy, and Cool, and Awesome all rolled into one giant electricity and fertilizer producing ball.

MadMonk		2012-05-02 02:50:44 PM

In China if you break a deal, you face the wheel.

Contents Under Pressure		2012-05-02 02:54:34 PM

I don't see how this can be described as "sick". It's a very inventive solution to a problem.

onzmadi		2012-05-02 02:57:43 PM

Cheron		2012-05-02 03:20:43 PM

gopher321: poop thread"

船尾线程

Dinobot		2012-05-02 03:23:52 PM

When life gives you shiat, make it biofuel?

rjakobi		2012-05-02 03:32:50 PM

Well, why not? It's methane, innit? Don't you people want methane?

groppet		2012-05-02 03:43:04 PM

Who they gonna get to shovel it?

emotion_lotion		2012-05-02 03:57:39 PM

Methane cometh from pig shiat.

/ain't we a pair, ragady man.

buttery_shame_cave		2012-05-02 04:00:37 PM

i remember reading once that with the appropriate fittings, one sheep produced enough methane from farts alone to run a truck for about 45km in one day.

sure that ain't much till you think about the relative size of the sheep.

and turning poo into gas fuel isn't new tech, it's just finally catching on.

groppet		2012-05-02 04:21:48 PM

The first place you'll find is a sleaze-pit called Chinatown. Now if the earth doesn't swallow you up first, that place sure as hell will!

tjsands1118		2012-05-02 04:26:23 PM

FTA: Only one tenth of pig waste is used now as manure.

So eating vegetable that are grown in pig shiat is alright, but cooking them with fuel from shiat is sick?

I'm confused subby.

gsiofa		2012-05-02 05:58:42 PM

Treygreen13:
www.cultureblues.com

That's pretty much what I came here for. Thanks.

jso2897		2012-05-02 07:10:31 PM

Foemer East Texas farm boy, here. If they're going to use pig wastes for fuel, they need to get the smell out somehow, or do it out in the middle of a desert or something. There's only one thing I've smelled that's worse than pigshiat, and that's burning pigshiat.

TV's Vinnie		2012-05-02 07:10:48 PM

whither_apophis: But what do they do with the Chinese doo?

What do you think's IN THE BURGERS?

www.ycdtotv.de

"D'uhhhhhh I heard that!"

Spaced Lion		2012-05-02 07:19:30 PM

groppet: Who they gonna get to shovel it?

People with no sense of smell, obviously.

meat0918		2012-05-02 07:39:09 PM

jso2897: Foemer East Texas farm boy, here. If they're going to use pig wastes for fuel, they need to get the smell out somehow, or do it out in the middle of a desert or something. There's only one thing I've smelled that's worse than pigshiat, and that's burning pigshiat.

If it is what I am familiar with, It goes in a large anaerobic reactor vessel where it will be broken down by bacteria into methane and a high nitrogen/phosphorus fertilizer.

They burn the methane to heat water and generate steam for the turbines.

The fertilizer will be sold back to the farmers for their fields.

Tax Boy		2012-05-02 07:53:12 PM

Just don't let bats get near the pig droppings. Or was it pigs near the bat droppings?

Whatever. Just stay far away from Hong Kong restaurants with filthy kitchens.

Phocas		2012-05-02 08:39:12 PM

meat0918: jso2897: Foemer East Texas farm boy, here. If they're going to use pig wastes for fuel, they need to get the smell out somehow, or do it out in the middle of a desert or something. There's only one thing I've smelled that's worse than pigshiat, and that's burning pigshiat.

If it is what I am familiar with, It goes in a large anaerobic reactor vessel where it will be broken down by bacteria into methane and a high nitrogen/phosphorus fertilizer.

They burn the methane to heat water and generate steam for the turbines.

The fertilizer will be sold back to the farmers for their fields.

Difficulty: How to get rid of the hydrogen sulfide, water vapor, and carbon dioxide that is also created during the digestion process. The scrubbers cut into the profit margin necessary to keep this option viable

meat0918		2012-05-02 08:48:34 PM

Phocas: meat0918: jso2897: Foemer East Texas farm boy, here. If they're going to use pig wastes for fuel, they need to get the smell out somehow, or do it out in the middle of a desert or something. There's only one thing I've smelled that's worse than pigshiat, and that's burning pigshiat.

If it is what I am familiar with, It goes in a large anaerobic reactor vessel where it will be broken down by bacteria into methane and a high nitrogen/phosphorus fertilizer.

They burn the methane to heat water and generate steam for the turbines.

The fertilizer will be sold back to the farmers for their fields.

Difficulty: How to get rid of the hydrogen sulfide, water vapor, and carbon dioxide that is also created during the digestion process. The scrubbers cut into the profit margin necessary to keep this option viable

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

Is this less polluting than coal?

Is this utilizing a resource that would otherwise be producing methane and off-gassing directly into the atmosphere?

Isn't this largely considered carbon neutral (even though the production of pig feed is not).

MBA Whore		2012-05-02 09:36:00 PM

This is awesome.

wildcardjack		2012-05-02 10:07:20 PM

I heard that China was going to start enforcing a cap and trade system for discharge of animal feces. I believe the form translates roughly to "Brown Note"

HypnozombieX		2012-05-02 11:54:30 PM

Came for the Mad Max references.
not disapointed

margarito bandito		2012-05-03 01:31:57 AM

Wasn't Philly doing a sewer to oil implementation last time the world went insane over the price of oil? Did that go anywhere?

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf		2012-05-03 03:44:15 AM

gsiofa: Treygreen13:
[www.cultureblues.com image 530x424]

That's pretty much what I came here for. Thanks.

Thirded

meanmutton		2012-05-03 10:17:34 AM

meat0918: Sick?

This is Spiffy, and Cool, and Awesome all rolled into one giant electricity and fertilizer producing ball.

Came here to say that. What's possibly sick about taking shiat and turning it into something useful?

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