fowl weather

First: props in order! The Falcons defeat Matt Schaub ( pictured ) and the Texan's for the first win of the season...

Now, onto the main course....

http://www.macon.com/220/story/149281.html


"The project would be the first such plant in Georgia and perhaps the nation, although a Minnesota company announced plans earlier this year to build a $200 million plant fired by turkey litter.

It would produce 20 megawatts of electricity a year by using a mix of chicken litter and wood scraps as fuel to generate steam that turns electricity-generating turbines. Area electric membership cooperatives have agreed to buy the electricity the plant produces to sell as "green" energy.

Georgia's chicken farms produce about 2.3 million tons of chicken litter each year, and the amount is increasing about 3 percent annually, said Billy Jones, the company's operations manager. "



Now, let me see if I have this straight.

We currently have a whole mess of Chicken Poop available, but in order to convert it into 'Green Energy' we have to mix it with wood chips and burn it?

And this is somehow better then burning coal, which we already do, or building a 'truly green' nuclear power plant?

Isn't this a little like bringing kudzu from the orient into Georgia to stem erosion? How did that work out?! Burning chicken feces doesn't have some bad side effect, or we just don't know about it yet?!

Normally, I would applaud this guy's pluck ( pun intended )but this whole concept does not seem to 'thought out'...

Oh yeah, while looking for a pic for 'chicken poop' online I found this lip balm product..... The quote on the box says:


Grandpa says:

"If ya'got chapped lips, put chicken
poop on em so you won't lick em!"