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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Cow Manure, Other Homegrown Energy Powering U.S. Farms


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From wind to sun to cow pies, rural regions are full of natural resources that can be used to make renewable energy (above, cattle rest under windmills at a Canadian wind farm).

Across the United States, many farmers turning this homegrown electricity into a new crop.

Photograph by Steve Winter/NGS