Okay, it really comes from cows, but that’s not as funny.
The 900 cows in the herd at the Haubenschild dairy farm in rural Princeton likely didn’t notice anything different going on there Jan. 27.
And likely not very many people around Princeton noticed what happened that day at the farm, an event that farmer Dennis Haubenschild claims was a first in the world.
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Setting up the hydrogen fuel cell at the Haubenschild farm required a $200,000 grant and it came from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund through the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources.
Bids were sought to supply the hydrogen fuel cell and a company called Plugpower was chosen. The machine is producing 120 KW/H, which means 120,000 watts per hour of electricity, using the methane coming out of the manure digester.
Interestingly enough, he ran into the problem that the power company didn’t want to buy the juice from him, even though they could resell it for a premium.