User:Cap'n Refsmmat/ScienceNews/January 8, 2005

Turkey Power
A new power plant in Minnesota aims to bring new meaning to the words "bio fuel."

The power plant will, seriously, run on turkey dung. Lots of turkey dung. Enough turkey dung to power 55,000 homes, and probably raise quite a stench.

There are already three plants of the type in England, but this is the first major plant in the USA.

Turkey dung is apparently much better than cow or pig dung, because it is drier. In burning the dung produces phosphorus and nitrogen, which is then used as fertilizer. It also does not emit any more waste than the dung would in naturally decaying.

Quite an idea.

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