This Climate Solution is a Turkey. Really.
“It may not be the total answer to relieving the United States’ addiction to foreign oil…”, as Reuters put it, but an energy company has started building a plant in Minnesota to use poultry droppings to generate carbon-free electricity.
On Thanksgiving, you may not want to think about what exactly the word biomass means as a renewable energy. You wouldn’t want to ruin your feast by bringing up “700,000 tons per year of turkey litter” as a source of clean power for 55,000 homes in Minnesota. On the other hand, maybe it’s just the political debate you want to spark with your in-laws.
