Turning cow patties into energy

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Here’s the latest poop on saving energy: poop.

On a dairy farm near Fresno, cow manure is being turned into natural gas for use by PG&E in what the utility hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy, Reuters reports.

The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, the brainchild of lifelong dairyman David Albers, aims to provide the natural gas needed to power 1,200 homes a day, Albers said at the inauguration ceremony for the facility in Riverdale.

‘With nearly 2 million dairy cows in California, the potential is great,’ said Roy Kuga, vice president of energy supply for San Francisco-based PG&E.

Apparently what is one cow’s poop is one man’s treasure.

-- Francisco Vara-Orta