Chickens Can Help Save the Planet Too | Fast Company

...Now here's a challenging Hacker project  [holding nose]
My daughter once made a Microbial Fuel Cell [she won first in the PJAS 9th grade sciencefair too]
so this should be easy :)
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Chickens Can Help Save the Planet Too | Fast Company:
As regular readers know, we love poop-powered gizmos. And with everything from wastewater thermal energy devices to portable poop-powered nuclear reactors popping up on our radar, there's no shortage of sludgy stories to cover.

Our new favorite: FuelCell Energy's chicken poop-powered fuel cell plant.

The fuel cell power plant, set to be installed at Olivera Egg Ranch in French Camp, California, will convert the chickens' waste streams into methane gas for a mini-power plant. All methane waste from the chickens will be converted into renewable energy--a big change from the current system, where poop is stored in a giant waste lagoon and methane (a greenhouse gas) is free to escape into the air. Considering the scale of Olivera's operations--14 million cartons of eggs produced each year--that's an awful lot of methane.