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U.S. dairy farm manure begins to power homes
"The odor reduction is probably the biggest thing that everybody likes,"
- Lee Jensen
New York - Lee Jensen says the manure from his dairy farm powers almost as many homes as he has cows.
The farm is one of three in Wisconsin that has partnered with New Hampshire-based Environmental Power Corp. to run machines called methane digesters. The machine mines methane, or natural gas, from rotting manure which then powers generators that connect to local grids, or feed the gas directly into pipelines.