Chicken poo power could be alternative to coal
By Reuters
02 January 2018 |
12:33 pm
Israeli researchers develop a way to mimic coal formation by heating wet chicken waste, potentially providing an alternative energy source to the fossil fuel and find a use for growing amounts of waste from poultry.
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