REXVILLE — It takes slightly more than three gallons of liquid cow manure to create one kilowatt-hour of electricity. A lot of poop. A small amount of electricity. A big environmental boost to a dairy ...

Save America's energy. Feed a cow. That pretty much sums up the work of Microgy, which has discovered that manure and other waste products from cows, pigs and other livestock is a largely untapped ...

Cow manure will be used to power skiers to the top of a Vermont resort this winter as part of a growing effort to generate electricity from a byproduct of the state’s iconic dairy farms. Killington, ...

MONROE, Wash. -- Snohomish County Public Utility (Sno-PUD) Managers topped Puget Sound Energy in a bid to buy manure-generated power from digester operator near Monroe. Methane is captured from the ...

HELSINKI (AP) — In a glimpse of the future, an entire sports event has been run on horse manure. The world's governing equestrian body on Monday praised a climate-friendly scheme by a Finnish ...

Manure is regarded to be the best natural fertilizer for farms, but the ones from horses may have more purpose apart from enriching one's harvests, with a new study claiming that it can be transformed ...

The project seemed simple enough — build a waste-to-energy plant on the Eastern Shore fueled by poultry manure, keeping it from flushing into and polluting the bay, while creating green jobs and ...

DODGE, Neb. -- Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe ...

Green power from cow pies? No bull, it turns out. Farms across the northeast have begun employing an intricate scientific process, using cow manure as a fuel source, that creates enough power to ...

Giving new meaning to the term “server farm,” a team of Hewlett-Packard researchers has come up with an idea for an environmentally friendly data center — powered by manure. In a paper set for release ...