Sentences with phrase «pig manure»

"Pig manure" refers to the waste or excrement produced by pigs. Full definition
STINKING lagoons of pig manure created by thousands of animals in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide.
This guy has pig manure for a brain inisde his skull.
As a teenager, he was sent to the countryside, where he spent several years working in the fields and shoveling pig manure.
Pig manure research may not smell like roses, but it's definitely not just pork in the latest federal spending bill, says one Iowa researcher
On a hot summer day nearly 10 years ago, I found myself straining pig manure to remove maggots for use in my high school science fair project.
Now a Danish team has analysed the various ways in which firms in that country treat pig manure and use it to generate electricity in systems such as anaerobic digesters or incinerators.
[In 2013, researchers showed that people living near pig farms or crop fields fertilized with pig manure are 30 % more likely to become infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.]
It may sound like bull, but by converting the power stored in pig manure to electricity, the government hopes to eventually create the energy equivalent of 360,000 tons of oil a year from animal waste, while preventing the release of all that methane (which has more than 20 times the global warming effect of a CO2 molecule).
Before you can say «Albert Einstein» he's reading seven books a day, making fuel out of pig manure and becoming fluent in Portuguese in the course of a 20 - minute car journey to save the life of a small non-American with food poisoning.
Duke University is counting on gas captured from pig manure to meet its climate change goal, officials said at a forum Tuesday evening.
For this purpose, we can start with a greenhouse used in agriculture where sewage sludge or pig manure are drying, and measure the amount of some GHGs inside and outside after passing through a large surface area of photocatalyst exposed to sunlight.
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