Studying Cow Farts
July 11th, 2008 by john
In what is perhaps the strangest article I remember reading in the UK Telegraph, it seems that Argentine scientists have been looking into the methane gas produced by cattle.
The Telegraph article claims the researchers at the Argentine National Institute of Agricultural Technology estimate that every cow produces 800-1000 litres of emissions every day. With 55 million heads of cattle grazing in Argentina, these emissions could amount to as much as 30% of the countries greenhouse gas emissions (and methane is 23 times worse than CO2 when it comes to trapping heat).
Tags: argentina, cattle, cow, methane, telegraph
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July 28th, 2008 at 6:04 am
[...] That decomposition process produces air pollution and greenhouse gases (we reported earlier that an Argentinian study had concluded as much as 30% of that country’s greenhouse gas emissions could be coming from their [...]