The Flatulence Files
p2pnet.net OT News:- “You cannot stop a sheep belching or farting, but you can make sure its eructations are less damaging to the environment.
“Belches and, to a far lesser degree, farts from sheep, cows and other farm animals account for around 20% of global methane emissions. The gas is a potent source of global warming because, volume for volume, it traps 23 times as much heat as the more plentiful carbon dioxide.
“To protect the planet from such ruminant effusions, a team led by Andre-Denis Wright of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Perth, Western Australia, has developed a vaccine against the archaean microbes that produce methane in sheep rumens.”
New Scientist says it’s true, so it must be true.
Can you imagine how the scientists must have suffered whilst running the archaean microbe efficiency tests?
(Say no more ; )
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See:-
belching or farting – Burp vaccine cuts greenhouse gas emissions, New Scientist, September 25, 2004
September 26th, 2004 at 5:37 am
Don’t Pass That Gas!!!!!!!
September 26th, 2004 at 8:38 am
the link http://adserver.adtech.de/?adiframe|2.0|289|73231|1|1|target=nsad; seems to be non-working. A working link is http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996431
The article said “After two injections of the vaccine, sheep burped 8% less methane in a 13-hour test”.
8% less? That’s barely even noticeable, and maybe even within the margin of chance.
Perhaps what they really need is a special version of Underease® fart-proof underwear.
http://www.under-tec.com/
September 26th, 2004 at 11:11 am
Um, well – perhaps its me here but if they produce ’sooo much’ of this gas, why cant they put them in a ‘bubble boy’ kinda environment, where the gasses could be captured and used as fuel – lol
Oh God though, could you imagine the smell in the bubble? Even the animals would need gas-masks though or the animal rights ppl would eat that one alive..
_-Jile-_
September 26th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
Thanks. Fixed. Those phking kick-on ad apps !!! I usually manage to get them on the way to the actual pages so I post only the real urls. I missed this one
“Ad management software used for online advertising with the latest adserver technology, sophisticated banner software for rich media ad delivery and geo ……”
Chers!