There are no two ways around it: cow burps and farts produce methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Growing meat in a lab is one way reduce this problem, but it's hardly an immediate solution. How about putting giant backpacks on cows to capture the offending gas, as shown in the pictures above?
Sadly, the backpacks themselves don't solve any problems. Instead, they've been helping scientists in Argentina measure cows' methane emissions so that they can figure out how to reduce them. While the Brits are trying garlic, the Argentine scientists are testing diets that move cattle from eating grain, which is harder for them to digest, to plants like alfalfa and clover. These small changes could make a big difference, especially in countries like Argentina, where cows may generate 30% of Argentina's greenhouse gas emissions. We think these scientists are thinking small, however: why not attach a backpack to every cow and use the resulting methane as rocket fuel?
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By Sakebomb at 10:13 AM ON 07/25/08
This the most absurd thing I have ever seen.
The global warming alarmist retards have finally gone too far.
Shoving a tube up a cows ass to save the planet....
I dont even know where to begin............
By treycranson at 10:39 AM ON 07/25/08
Does this remind anyone else of the Hindenburg?
By Dexy9000 at 12:25 PM ON 07/25/08
How long till we see 'Danger: Exploding Cows' signs in Argentina I wonder?
Maybe it's their new WMD research?
By IsoTek at 7:49 PM ON 07/25/08
Wow, and PETA says eating meat is bad...Look, the cows are killing the enviroment so it is everyone's duty to eat the equivalent of their own body mass in cow this year! Eat a cow, save the planet!
By KAW at 4:12 PM ON 07/26/08
Now my first reaction was, "I can't imagine a ranch full of these things walking around".
But then I read this article about the original story and at the end of it they mention Rocket Fuel!
That's when I said, "Cool!" I thought what a cool way to help fund the next return to the moon.
I picture it like this, it would work kind of like the old War Bonds but this time for NASA.
Slogan: Buy NASA Beef to Power our way back to the Moon!
By getalife at 4:40 AM ON 07/27/08
This is ridiculous!
By Stefan at 5:49 AM ON 07/28/08
Wheeee,
I'd like to see those backpacks used on people that travel by train.
This would surely improve the "climate".
By GreenPeaceMustDie at 12:24 AM ON 08/18/08
Seriously, these global warming nuts need to get a life, they said 20 years ago we were going into the next ice age.... The actual impact man has on the global environment is very very minimal