#Cow Power
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Central Vermont Public Service has launched [tag]Cow Power[/tag], a system by which power users can opt to buy 25, 50, or 100% of their electricity from dairy farms that run generators on methane obtained from cow manure. Cow Power costs only 4 cents/kWh more than market price, so a household like mine would only pay $5-6/month more at 100% usage. The big question now is whether Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream will use power generated from the manure of cows treated with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone.
Beats Cat Power…?
Cow Power!…
Central Vermont Public Service is launching a new service called Cow Power. Cow Power customers can choose to get 25%, 50%, or even 100% of their power from methane gas obtained by burning cow manure from Vermont’s many dairy farms. The service i…
July 11th, 2006 at 9:37 am