Holsteins on a Vermont farm step gingerly around a mechanical shovel that scoops their waste and shoots it into a “cow-powered” electric generator.

Besides pumping out 8,000 gallons of milk a day, these 2,000 dairy cows also light up 400 homes. The fuel is methane gas that bubbles from manure treated with bovine bacteria in heated underground tanks. Environmentally conscious utility customers in Vermont can pay an extra $20 a month to get their electricity from such manure-fueled generators.

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I’d be willing to pay an extra twenty bucks a month if my electricity came from cow poop.