Fish Oil Solution to Cows Fart Global Warming
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Irish scientists may have devised a solution to plug on the biggest sources of methane production.
Scientists in Ireland have come up with an answer to save the planet from global warming, not from reducing fossil fuel consumption but by changing the diets of cows.
Cows have been targeted as one of the greatest potential environmental threats to the planet because of the amount of methane they produce through passing wind. Whilst most governments are focusing on the buzzword of the moment CO2 emissions, Methane (CH4) is potentially far more dangerous than carbon dioxide.
Methane is 20 times more effective at trapping heat within our atmosphere which is the major concern for global warming, climate change and the melting of the polar ice caps. Each bovine produces approximately 400 litres of methane a day which adds up to 8 kilograms of CO2.
The amount of carbon produced by one cow in a day is the equivalent of a gas-guzzling Land Rover Freelander travelling 77 miles. In Britain alone there are roughly 10 million cows which gives an indication of the scale of the problem of bovine flatulence.
Some of Ireland’s brightest minds however may have come up with a solution to significantly reduce the problem. Dr Lorraine Lillis of University College Dublin fed cows on a diet of fish oil enriched with omega-3. The results of the test found that the gas cows excreted after dietary change contained only 79 per cent of the original methane content.
Dr Lillis commented: “The fish oil affects the methane-producing bacteria in the rumen part of the cow’s gut leading to reduced emissions,” according to TheRegister.co.uk. Whilst this is potentially good news for the environment, fish oil is quite rare and would be prohibitively expensive to produce for the world’s supply of cows.
Not only that, cows are just the start of the methane producing problem. According to Stephen Fry as he spoke on satirical quiz show QI, the animal which produces the most amount of methane on the planet is the termite. No plans have been put in place to offer termites an omega-3 diet plan.
As TheRegister.co.uk surmised: “If the Irish fish oil fart-squelching technology should fail, it will clearly be time for every cow to be fitted with some type of buttock mounted guff-blast detonator kit,” now that sounds like a worthy task for the tech-bods at NASA.
globel warming is all a frekin hoax
It is essential to think seriously about the changes in global warming around us. It will not do anything to just write on blogs or chat on the net. Everybody must unite and fight for this serious cause.
Isn’t this all weird?
Warmer ocean, worsening storms… Over the past decade we’ve been told over and over again that the majority of scientists agree that global warming is a fact. Some have taken it upon themselves to warn people that precautions should be taken to avoid loss of life during floods, intense storms, and other calamities occurring because the planet is warming.
As of late May/June 2010, there is flooding happening in many parts of the world as clean up and rescue continue in Dallas, Guatemala City, Slovakia, and parts of Asia as well as other locations.
Hopefully, we won’t see devastating hurricanes, as that’s the last thing the Gulf of Mexico needs right now!