Argentine Scientist Fight Global Warming By Collecting Cow Burps
Jul 21, 2008 Click to Comment → PrintFighting global warming is an important responsibility, and Argentine scientists have been doing their part by keeping the methane in cow burps out of the atmosphere. How are they doing it? According to Reuters, pink tanks are strapped to the backs of cows and a tube is put into their stomach. Then, scientists can analyze the air that would have become a bovine burp. A researcher in the National Institute of Agricultural Technology says that cows actually may be the source of 30 percent of Argentina’s green house gases. While this seems hard to imagine—Buenos Aires has a lot of cars and buses—a cow can produce 800 to 1,000 liters (28 to 35 cubic feet) of emissions each day.
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