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2010-06-08 Afghanistan

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Posted by mom 2010-06-08 09:35|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 They can use their poppies for biomass . . . .

Posted by gorb 2010-06-08 10:39|| 2010-06-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 FTA: "Gobar is the Nepali word for cow dung. The Gas refers to biogas derived from the natural decay of dung, other waste products, and any biomass. In Nepal, villagers use buffalo, cow, human, and other waste products for biogas production. Pig and chicken dung are used in some places, as are raw kitchen wastes, including rotted vegetation."

Some great photos as well.

It amazes me that this process hasn't been investigated and pushed if feasible in Afghanistan. It's not like India and others aren't acquainted with the tech.

Posted by tipover 2010-06-08 11:06|| 2010-06-08 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I used to read about gobar gas decades ago in the Mother Earth News. If you have the dung, the temperatures, and an environment not torn up by war, it could help.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-06-08 11:55|| 2010-06-08 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 If you have the dung, the temperatures, and an environment not torn up by war, it could help.

How many good jihadis will recognize a dung processor that's mostly a hole in the ground, Alaska Paul?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-08 11:58|| 2010-06-08 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Somehow I get the feeling it would be against their religion.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-06-08 12:39|| 2010-06-08 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 not if they only use their left hand, Goob

Posted by Bigfoot Ebbusing8209 2010-06-08 13:26|| 2010-06-08 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Just imagine how much biomass they could get from shredded Korans!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-06-08 14:20|| 2010-06-08 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sorry Michael, these poor people can't have Gobar Gas. It is methane and methane produces climate change or global warming according to environmentalists and AlGore. Sorry, these people are destined to be poor and starve to death as well. Cap and trade will "cap" Gobar Gas.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-08 16:14|| 2010-06-08 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 But I'm sure that Al_Gore will be more than willing to sell the carbon credits they are not using.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-08 17:00|| 2010-06-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#10 good article, but search-and-destroy methods can't work in Afghanistan. And the political solution in Iraq - somewhat balancing Sunni-Shiite interests - has no mirror in Central Asia. The enemy is infiltrating at will, and acting from numerous terror cells. Karzai is obstructing both counter-infiltration and cell-discovery, not to mention the whitewash of his family's interests in the opium/heroin trade. And Afghans - especially in the Taliban strongholds - are worthless at best, and collaborative with the enemy at worst.

Posted by One Eyed Thinenter6178 2010-06-08 18:28|| 2010-06-08 18:28|| Front Page Top

#11 A remarkable difference in Nepal is that most ethnic and religious groups coexist reasonably well, and despite their recent civil war the Nepalese seem considerably less prone to warlordism, general violence, and especially violence directed toward outsiders. Not only remarkable, but so different from Afghanistan that the two countries are not even in the same league. Half-century ahead? How about half a millennium?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-08 18:31|| 2010-06-08 18:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Even a Maoist takeover can't wipe out the advantage of having no Muslims.

Posted by Grunter 2010-06-08 18:43|| 2010-06-08 18:43|| Front Page Top

#13 You have got to be $hittin' me!

Posted by airandee 2010-06-08 19:19|| 2010-06-08 19:19|| Front Page Top

#14 It ain't methane if you burn it. And if you don't it is, anyway.

Posted by KBK 2010-06-08 20:18|| 2010-06-08 20:18|| Front Page Top

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