At a dairy farm in the San Joaquin Valley, cow 💩 gets turned into energy. But here's why not everyone is on board with a future powered by cow droppings:
Lyle Schlyer grinned as a river of frothing manure oozed down a concrete channel, the murky greenish fluid soon disappearing into a storm drain-like hole.
The liquids would eventually reach a double-lined holding pond, larger than a football field and covered by a thick black tarp. A stew of gases — mostly methane and carbon dioxide — bubbled up under the tarp, creating enough pressure that you can walk across the undulating surface with sinking steps, like an open-air bounce house or a bizarre sand dune.
At this dairy farm outside the San Joaquin Valley town of Pixley, Schlyer’s company turns cow droppings into energy. Left untouched, the decomposing manure might otherwise spend months sitting in open lagoons, getting broken down by bacteria in a reaction that produces methane gas, a powerful planet-warming pollutant.
This is one vision of California’s clean-energy future. It’s gaining traction in the gas industry, and with some government officials.Two weeks later, the California Public Utilities Commission met via video conference amid the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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