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This dairy farmer figured out how to power your BMW with cow manure

from Fast Company

This dairy farmer figured out how to power your BMW with cow manure Fast Company Since taking over management of the family's California dairy farm, in 1977, Albert Straus has used it as a force for change, becoming the first 100% certified organic, zero-waste, non-GMO creamery in North America, processing milk from about a dozen partner farms. Since 2004, Straus Family Creamery has been using bio "digesters" to convert methane produced from manure into biogas, which fuels an on-farm generator cranking out 350,000 kilowatt-hours of certified renewable electricity annually — enough for him to sell the excess back to the local utility. Last November, Straus entered into a first-of-its-kind agreement with carmaker BMW Group to supply cow-to-car electricity for BMW's electric vehicles in California. READ MORE

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