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Rabin,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/25/2013 11:05 PM, Rabin Shrestha
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will it be a good idea to install biogas
plant at zoo to manage and generate energy from the animal
waste in the zoo???</p>
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There are a substantial number of zoos (as other posters have noted)
using biogas: Munich, <a
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.heatgroup.at/heatbio/index.php%3Fid%3D5%26sid%3D8%26country%3D1&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Biogasanlage%2BZoo%2BHeidelberg%2522%26biw%3D1124%26bih%3D595">Heidelberg</a>,
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/zooshare">Toronto</a>,
Johannesburg, Denver, others. Some work has been done on the
generation of biogas from the manure of zoo animals, either in or
out of zoos:<br>
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<blockquote>Energy Production from Zoo Animal Wastes, Klasson et
al, 2003. (<a
href="http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/123/1238059703.pdf">article</a>,
<a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/eere/PDFs/Zoodoopost.pdf">poster</a>)<br>
Biogas Production from Elephant Dung, National Elephant
Institute, 2004 (hard to find)<br>
Biogas from elephant dung: a means of mitigating human-elephant
conflict, Wijeyamohan, 2003 (<a
href="http://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/22-62-Wijeyamohan.pdf">article</a>)<br>
...and the very interesting...<br>
Panda poop may be a treasure trove of microbes for making
biofuels, Williams, 2011 (<a
href="http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2011/august/panda-poop-may-be-a-treasure-trove-of-microbes-for-making-biofuels.html">news
release</a>)<br>
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<div style="font:Georgia" ;=""><span style="font-size:110%;">David
William House<br>
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<div style="padding-left:3em;font-size:80%;">"The Complete
Biogas Handbook" <code><a href="www.completebiogas.com">www.completebiogas.com</a></code><br>
<em>Vahid Biogas</em>, an alternative energy consultancy <code><a
href="www.vahidbiogas.com">www.vahidbiogas.com</a><br>
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<div style="padding-left:2em;">"Make no search for water.
But find thirst,<br>
And water from the very ground will burst."
<div style="padding-left:2em;font-size:80%;">(Rumi, a
Persian mystic poet, quoted in <em>Delight of Hearts</em>,
p. 77) <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bahai.us/">http://bahai.us/</a></div>
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