OT: Global Warming

Posted by Fred on July 21, 2009, 4:25 am

1000 lb. Hereford Steer - 4 lbs. poop/day - amount of methane gas unknown.
8000 lb. Elephant - 250 lbs. poop/day - amount of methane gas unknown.
32,000 lb. Brontosaurus - 1000 lbs. poop/day - amount of methane gas
unknown.

Seems logical enough that if we don't start embracing global warming, find
some DNA and start raising brontosaurus then at maturity dumping their
carcasses into a big pit, that no way, no how is there going to be enough
oil for future generations.

Nagging question - How many brontosaurus or other dino types and how much
brontosaurus poop did it take to make a barrel of oil?? Assuming dinos, dino
poop and what ever veggies they didn't eat got converted into oil or natural
gas.

Gall-Dung-It! It seems like I've run out of Branch!

Fred
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Posted by Tia Mary on July 21, 2009, 7:49 am

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Don't you read AvWeek or some other science related mag?? Word is
that the cows living on the earth today put out more methane, etc. (the
infamous greenhouse gasses) than all of the internal combustion engines
in operation. The blame for this is laid at our feet because the number
of cattle has risen because humans like to eat beef!
Can you just imagine all of the noxious fumes put out by cattle
*before* the invention of the internal combustion engine? I'm sure
someone somewhere has done the necessary research to compare the amount
of animal produced methane in the atmosphere back then to what the
animals produce now. As for brontosaur, etc. produced methane, I bet it
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Posted by on July 23, 2009, 1:06 pm

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It's not likely that the animals back in the eons before human
agriculture put out too much methane. That's a waste of energy. The
only reason that farm animals nowadays put out so much methane is
that we feed them grain, not grass. That means that the modern gut
flora waste some of it as methane.

There have been some recent studies that prove that you can eliminate
the possibility of bad E.coli infection of beef by feeding only straw
for the week before slaughter. You basically starve out the bacteria
while the animal keeps going on the cellulose.

Irene

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