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Finding power in pig waste
January 19, 2010
By News Observer
By News Observer
January 19, 2010
By News Observer
By News Observer
NEWS HIGHLIGHT
Finding power in pig waste
In Eastern North Carolina, pig manure is serious business. Hogs
outnumber people three-to-one, and long-standing controversies about the
environmental impact continue.
January 19, 2010, Chapel
Hill, NC – In Eastern North Carolina, pig manure is serious business. Hogs
outnumber people three-to-one, and long-standing controversies about the
environmental impact continue.
Now, a University of North
Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill associate professor has come up with a way to
eliminate the noxious odor and recycle the waste into fuel alcohol and gases
that can be used to make electricity.
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