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Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
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Methane-rich pig excrement on a large Netherlands farm is being turned into electricity and partially fed into the national power grid. Horrevorts, Manager of Praktijkcentrum Pig Farm: "At this moment we are producing enough electricity at our bio-gas installation for 1,500 households and for that we are using all the pig muck from our farm. So in total we produce about five-thousand mega watts a year." The farm uses the electricity it needs, and feeds the rest into the national grid.    (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)


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