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offgrid 
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 Topic: Whats pulling your RPodPosted: 10 Aug 2020 at 6:14am |
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Just feed each horse 5 lbs of Beano per day, problem solved
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GlueGuy
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Posted: 09 Aug 2020 at 8:56pm |
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Not so fast. Methane has roughly 30X the greenhouse gas effect relative to C02.
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lostagain
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 10:52pm |
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The droppings of our wild horses here in rural NV are not very useful. They are so full of weed seeds that it can't be used in a garden. We just have to step around the road apples as we walk down the street.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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offgrid
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 6:21pm |
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Horses add a distinctive smell to their methane exhaust too, of which on average they produce 45 lbs per year, only about 1/3 of cows (there's a nice factoid for you). Not sure what their additive is exactly, but its not as bad smelling as human, dog, or cat exhaust....
There's a book out on the subject, Does it Fart? Another interesting factoid, snakes do but sloths do not. Who'd a thunk it....
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DavMar
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 6:04pm |
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We bag it and sell it to local gardeners and pays for the feed. As for the smell well to me that's the smell of money $$$
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lostagain
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 5:43pm |
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I thought methane doesn't have an odor, thus utility companies add mercaptan to make it smell distinctive so you know you have a leak.
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Never leave footprints behind.
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offgrid
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 4:04pm |
Yes because horses produce CO2 (and stinky methane gas). But its can be zero net pollution because hay is a biofuel. If you use the team to cut, rake, bale, and transport the hay to the barn then you've got a pollution free self sustaining system. If you use a diesel or gas tractor to process and transport the hay then maybe not so much..... |
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malkbean2
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 3:44pm |
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does burning a bale o hay with that much horsepower pollute?
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lostagain
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 1:03pm |
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Is that per horse or combined?
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DavMar
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Posted: 08 Aug 2020 at 10:59am |
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To lighten this recent gas verses diesel discussion here is what is now pulling my Pod.  I get 35 miles to a bale of hay and bucket of oats! Beat that!
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Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the
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