Re-MOO-able energy: Cow manure to become source of natural, utterly clean gas for Brookings [Video]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) — As scientists around the globe continue to search for ways to make the environment cleaner, farmers and energy industry leaders in South Dakota have found a new solution from one of the dirtiest places and least imaginable places.

Cow manure.

Cattle waste has never seemed less wasteful or more useful. Behold, the latest form of natural gas. The new renewable energy — Re-MOO-able energy.

On Monday in Brookings, about 50 such leaders gathered to celebrate a new way to keep the air clean that is truly “grassroots.” A ribbon cutting and ceremonial turning of the valve was staged to start the process of renewable natural gas (RNG) — a carbon-negative fuel, capturing methane that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere. Methane is 80 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide.

The event came on Earth Day, an annual global event intended to celebrate …