Cow Dung May Soon Power Computers!
- Cow manure may soon be used as a source of energy to power data centers or Internet in the future.
- Hewlett – Packard has released a study called “Design of Farm Waste – Driven Supply Side Infrastructure for Data Centers” that draws attention to biogas energy created from cow dung.
- The study encourages dairy farmers to rent out land and power to technology companies, reports Discovery News. Planet Green TV channel explained the process of transforming cow manure to bio-fuel called biogas.
- In this process, manure is first collected from the cows, and put under an anaerobic ligestion process, releasing methane gas.
- This gas can be used as natural gas or diesel fuel in generators that produce electricity.
- It apparently takes 10,000 cows to produce enough manure to power a small computer centre for a bank.
The Importance of Cow
The Vedic scriptures recommend that human beings should respect the cow as our mother who nurture us during our life. She is the personification of mildness and religion. Our scriptures identify the cow as the 'Mother' of all civilization, its milk nurturing the population. The gift of a cow is applauded as the highest kind of gift.

