Via Grist Magazine (a super fun daily read):
Old Dog Poop, New Tricks
San Francisco looks to harness the power of pet poop
Renewable energy is the sh*t. No, really. San Francisco Bay Area cities are aiming to generate no trash by 2020, and nearly 4 percent of San Francisco’s residential waste is animal excrement. What to do with the doo? Turn it into methane and heat your home or cook your meals with it! (Um, ew.) In the next few months, a San Francisco sanitation company will be collecting feces at a busy dog park — no doubt employees are jostling for the assignment — and sending it to be digested by hungry bacteria. The resulting methane could theoretically be used in any natural-gas system. Some officials hope to see methane digesters in individual homes within a few years. While it’s a relatively newfangled notion in the United States, some European countries already process poo into energy. … READ ALL at Grist, from the San Francisco Chronicle …
OPEN THREAD (NO POOPING ALLOWED!)
the BooMan could power a few small homes, I’m sure.
I was imagining more like half of Philadelphia.
Unreal! Amazing….eweeeeeeeeeee What about cats poo? ;o)
We have four dogs, and I bet we’d never have to pay another utility bill!
rolling down my cheeks … from the glory of what I’m listening to on the Documentary Channel: The life of a great piano teacher who taught Van Cliburn and so many other greats. The exquisite music. And she taught as I always believed the piano should be played: Not as a percussive instrument but as lyrically as possible — stroking the keys, never attacking. Oh yes. She reminds me a bit of the teacher with whom I had to begin all over in high school, after having taken since age 7. That teacher made me begin again – with scales! So I could learn how the keys are stroked.
It is called “The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne”
and recently I’ve listened to / seen so much like this. Last week, one night, an old 1981 documentary of the history of anarchism in the U.S. Quite marvelous.
PETITION HERE to get this channel on your television outlet.
I’m getting mine through DISH. And DISH thoughtfully added the channel directly below CNN, so I’m always seeing what’s on.
I’ve never been to the site before. I see that the Doc Channel accepts submissions too.
And now they’re showing her playing a Chopin concerto with the New York Philharmonic — at age 82. It was a hugely celebrated performance, with rave reviews.
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC had this as the #1 story tonight. I think the show reruns after 10 pm.
NO WAY! I hope he credited Grist … altho he may have gotten it directly from the SF Chronicle.
That Keith. He is so naughty.