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Finding power in pig waste

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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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