Harnessing the Energy Beneath Your Tires

[FRED]

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May we also suggest this solar powered windmill?

Solar Windmill

[cjppjc]

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From iTulip.com - Energy and Money:

Too funny. Look at the animals face.

[jimmygu3]

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Yep. Time once again to revive the idea of putting a small wind turbine on every electric car so that as it moves forward it keeps the batteries charged all the time. Voila, no need for a plug in to take energy from the grid, hybrid engines, or any of those complications. What could be simpler?...;) :p :rolleyes:

When I was 5 years old, I thought that the exhaust pipe propelled the car like a jet. I came up with an idea for a car that needs no gas once it's started: just put a pipe to catch the incoming wind and send it out the exhaust pipe to push the car.

Jimmy

[flintlock]

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Yeah, even the cow is embarrassed.

[GRG55]

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Don't laugh. With green tech, this is exactly where we are headed.:mad:

Maybe.

Then again, maybe not...

Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO₂ from cars

Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.


A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate...

...And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain...

Of course all this concern about cows is spawning numerous new career opportunities in research. Is this what they mean by "green jobs"? :rolleyes:

Cowabunga! Cutting cattle flatulence to save the planet

In the war against global warming, bovine and ovine flatulence does not immediately spring to mind as an obvious battlefront. But sheep and cows are responsible for a quarter of the UK's methane emissions.

Now scientists in Aberdeen are embarking on research into how best to cut the amount of harmful gas emitted by Britain's ruminants each year.

By cutting the amount of methane produced - a single dairy cow produces about 400 litres of the gas each day - scientists at the Rowett Research Institute believe they can significantly reduce Britain's contribution to global warming...

[Jim Nickerson]

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Maybe.

Then again, maybe not...

Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO₂ from cars

Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.


A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate...

...And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain...

Of course all this concern about cows is spawning numerous new career opportunities in research. Is this what they mean by "green jobs"? :rolleyes:

Cowabunga! Cutting cattle flatulence to save the planet

In the war against global warming, bovine and ovine flatulence does not immediately spring to mind as an obvious battlefront. But sheep and cows are responsible for a quarter of the UK's methane emissions.

Now scientists in Aberdeen are embarking on research into how best to cut the amount of harmful gas emitted by Britain's ruminants each year.

By cutting the amount of methane produced - a single dairy cow produces about 400 litres of the gas each day - scientists at the Rowett Research Institute believe they can significantly reduce Britain's contribution to global warming...

Simple answer quit eating beef.

[GRG55]

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Simple answer quit eating beef.

...and convert to goat milk...;)

[ThePythonicCow]

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Simple answer quit eating beef.

Well, this gentle Cow certainly agrees with that suggestion.

However unfortunately this methane gas issue pertains to dairy cattle as well as beef.

[Jim Nickerson]

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Well, this gentle Cow certainly agrees with that suggestion.

However unfortunately this methane gas issue pertains to dairy cattle as well as beef.

Nevertheless, a reduction in the beef herd should be signifcant.

[tacito]

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Well, this gentle Cow certainly agrees with that suggestion.

However unfortunately this methane gas issue pertains to dairy cattle as well as beef.

Not only dairy cattle, but humans too. Being a human, I have the same objections as you about eliminating metane generating animals.

I supose that everybody knows this, but just in case: Metane (CH4) is Natural Gas. The same natural gas that will last longer than oil, but not that much longer. I mention this because I don't understand why everybody is talking about eliminating it instead of recicling.

Anybody with a design for a metane recicling balloon for cattle or for humans?

[ThePythonicCow]

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recycling balloon for cattle or for humans?

I only have the design for cows - see the following.

[cobben]

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"I only have the design for cows "

There is actually a risk of explosion when operating on a cow, ask any vet.

Otherwise the permanent cow-fart solution is to switch to kangaroos, who don't fart.

[flintlock]

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"I only have the design for cows "

There is actually a risk of explosion when operating on a cow, ask any vet.

Talk about Ka-Poom!

[we_are_toast]

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Otherwise the permanent cow-fart solution is to switch to kangaroos, who don't fart.

Are you sure about that?

[jimmygu3]

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Are you sure about that?

Ah, the days when the only kids' show on tv was a middle-aged mustachioed man with a fake police badge and a stuffed animal in his pocket. :eek:

Jimmy