Cooking with cow power

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Last Update: 11/27 2:00 pm

At Vintage Dairies just south of Fresno, a huge plastic tarp stretches across a five-acre lagoon where cow manure is mixed with water and decomposes.

Massive bubbles under the tarp are captured methane gas. The methane is pulled out and turned into high-grade gas, which is sent down a PG&E transmission line to a power plant up north.

"We're milking 2,400 cows right now and producing enough power for about 1,000 homes," said David Albers, president president of Bioenergy Solutions.

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