| This is the straight poop... |
Turkey leftovers will take on a whole new use after a Minnesota company finishes construction of a power plant fired by the birds' droppings. It may not be the total answer to relieving the United States' addiction to foreign oil, but the plant will burn 90 percent turkey dung and create clean power for 55,000 homes....
| Honest. We don't make this crap up! |
Turkey dung is prized
[those four words would make a great name for a rock band as Dave Barry might say]
over pig excrement and cow chips. "Poultry litter is drier material, so it burns better, and there's a lot of it," said Charles Grecco, of HH Media, LLC, an investment bank that helped arrange $202 million in financing for the plant. The 55-megawatt plant will burn 700,000 tons of dung a year and produce fertilizer as a by-product,
[this is pretty conventional combustion -- not the fancy in situ pyrolysis that is supposed to produce petroleum type products from biomass see for example http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/gasification/2004-September/007102.html
--- but I just loved the phrase 'turkey dung is prized'] |