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		<title>Cow Power To Horsepower, making mileage on manure</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: Tom Banse of The Northwest News Network reports on converting cow manure to electricity on Northwest Public Radio) BELLINGHAM, WA – When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high-speed trains. Now here’s one of the most unconventional stimulus projects we’ve heard of. An institute at Western Washington University is getting half a million dollars to examine how to convert cow manure into horsepower. From Bellingham, correspondent Tom Banse explains. Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first poop-to-power generator in Washington State. Officially, the facility near Lynden, Washington is known as a methane digester. Manure from around a 1000 cows goes in one end. Then controlled decomposition yields methane gas. It’s burned like natural gas in an electric generator. The rub is, electricity sales haven’t been very profitable, or profitable at all says dairyman Vander Haak. Darryl Vander Haak: “We’re looking for alternative ways. The Northwest has too much hydropower to compete with. It would be easier to compete with the gas companies, I guess.” That’s why Vander Haak was open minded when the [...]]]></description>
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