Love your poetry! (Even if the truth is veiled in rhyme).
Also this was another solution to the Cow Belching problem..
Belching Bovines Are Bad for the Environment: How to Clear the Air
Amy Cortese Email 05.22.07 | 2:00 AM Illustration by Kristian Olson Start Previous: Virtual Hallucinating Device Drives Police Insane for a Day Next: Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Nintendo DS As Life Coach
Sure, fossil fuels are a major global warming culprit — but so are cows. Thanks to a ruminant stomach and a diet heavy in grass, a single heifer belches up to 300 pounds of methane a day (oddly, very little comes from flatulence). The natural gas is 20 times worse for the atmosphere than CO2, yet it also dissipates faster. Stop the burps and the air clears. Here's what researchers propose.
5 Ways to Cope With a Gassy Cow
1. New Bacteria Large kangaroos eat like cows but produce less methane. The Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries in Australia posits that bacteria in marsupials' intestines are key, so giving the organisms to bovines may cut methane production.
2. Gas Capture California inventor Markus Herrema proposes a special pouch to be worn over a cow's mouth. The bag captures exhaled methane, then microbes inside consume the gasses, growing into a biomass that can be used as a cleaner source of energy.
3. Supplements Like Beano for bovines, feed additives (such as vegetable oils and fumaric acid) have been shown to cut cows' methane production up to 20 percent. Chlorinated hydrocarbons could inhibit methane. Downside: They're expensive and can cause cancer.
4. Vaccination Drugs are being developed to eliminate the methane-producing bacteria inside a cow's gut. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and New Zealand's AgResearch are among those working on a burp vaccine.
5. Taxes If you can beat 'em, maybe you can tax 'em. In New Zealand, a proposed methane tax was defeated after farmers protested. A more politically palatable solution is proposed in Canada, where ranchers can qualify for carbon credits.
