Burp-catching mask for gassy cows, designed
to reduce methane emissions and slow down
climate change, wins prestigious Prince
Charles prize
Business Insider,
by
Joshua Zitser
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/1/2022 9:23:27 AM
An innovative face mask for cows, designed to reduce methane emissions and slow down climate change, has won a prestigious design award. The wearable device for cattle, created by UK-based design group Zelp, was one of the four winners of the inaugural Terra Cart Design Lab competition. Prince Charles, who launched the competition as part of his Sustainable Markets Initiative, hailed the ground-breaking design as "fascinating" at an awards ceremony in London on Wednesday, The Telegraph reported. The design, a smart harness for cows, converts methane into carbon dioxide and water vapor. Cows expel significant quantities of methane, an odorless
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lala 5/1/2022 9:27:56 AM (No. 1143198)
Insane idiots. On one hand they tell us that any sort of animal husbandry is cruel, then the same idiots hail the idea of strapping an uncomfortable and unnatural harness on a cow just to combat greenhouse gas. It’s a wonder the world doesn’t just explode from sheer lunacy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/1/2022 9:31:06 AM (No. 1143201)
Great News, now all the Lib Hags have a bag to put over their Ugly Faces!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JrSample 5/1/2022 9:34:13 AM (No. 1143205)
Evidently, they don't even understand their own pet theories. ''Man-made climate change'' is supposed to be happening, because carbon that was trapped far below the earth's surface is being released by the burning of fossil fuels.
Methane released when animals digest plant matter is not a net increase of carbon into earth's atmosphere. Whether that grass or hay is digested in the stomachs of cattle or if it decays in the ground the same chemical reaction and same elements will eventually be released. That is carbon that is already in the earth's cycle on the surface. Animals and plants release and consume carbon.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/1/2022 9:34:31 AM (No. 1143206)
OP says it best.
When will they decide that the humans who are resposible for greenhouse gas (/s) must be forced to don the same?
And Charles is to be king?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimincalif 5/1/2022 9:36:00 AM (No. 1143212)
Make Prince Charles wear one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Debrawr 5/1/2022 9:38:41 AM (No. 1143215)
Do they make one for Nancy Pelosi?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/1/2022 9:44:21 AM (No. 1143228)
I guess cows don't burp while eating. Just like taking your mask off while eating doesn't spread covid...../S/
Another job Americans won't do.....putting on and removing masks for several million head if cattle.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/1/2022 9:45:19 AM (No. 1143231)
Most disappointing that Zelp hasn't rolled out a similar device for capturing cow farts.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 5/1/2022 9:46:05 AM (No. 1143233)
The prestigious Prince Charles prize? Was "prestigious" in air quotes?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/1/2022 9:52:41 AM (No. 1143245)
Upon reflection, I don’t remember that their burps were the problem...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
justavoter 5/1/2022 10:02:30 AM (No. 1143256)
How is the cow supposed to eat with this contraption on in order to produce the methane?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/1/2022 10:08:05 AM (No. 1143267)
I suggest the prince wear one (in all his orifices) to cut down on his emissions. Or just shut your pie hole. That ought to cut down on a lot of gas. Just one more step to eliminate meat from our diets and get us on to BBQ crickets. I hate these useless people. Leave us the hell alone.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 5/1/2022 10:14:21 AM (No. 1143274)
I had Chili for supper last night. If I had one of those masks, I would go green.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 5/1/2022 10:19:31 AM (No. 1143284)
Please stop posting articles from The Onion. I'm beginning to think this is real.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Borderboy 5/1/2022 10:26:35 AM (No. 1143293)
This is a joke, right? Right!? Say it's joke!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
marbles 5/1/2022 10:27:15 AM (No. 1143294)
How are the cows supposed to eat? And , what about human beings? There are more of us than than there are cows and we pass a lot of gas. Billions of people = mass gas.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/1/2022 10:35:30 AM (No. 1143304)
The article says the device converts methane into carbon dioxide and water. But CO2 is the problem too. Plus I’m sure the degradation curve is steep and fast. Of course, it’s just a prank to garner attention, having no value for anything.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/1/2022 10:40:46 AM (No. 1143308)
In this case, the next obvious step to prevent pollution of the ocean is to provide fish and whale diapers.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/1/2022 10:48:15 AM (No. 1143314)
"Prestigious."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/1/2022 10:48:38 AM (No. 1143315)
Absolutely over-the-top bonkers. Literally could have been the premise for a Monty Python comedy skit a few years ago.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/1/2022 10:52:41 AM (No. 1143317)
Wouldn't the "mask" be more effective if they put it on the other end of the cow?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Scribelus 5/1/2022 10:57:18 AM (No. 1143321)
There’s no crackpot like a professional crackpot. And then there’s the royal crackpot. May The Queen live for another century! Longer live the Queen!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/1/2022 11:01:21 AM (No. 1143323)
Read what #3 said. It's a point of basic science. Certainly it slips right over the heads of most climate fanatics and their sheep-like followers. The only way their stupid hypothesis of imminent disaster works is if the net carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere is increasing (actually that would just make plants grow better and turn the Earth into a garden planet). Every atom of carbon in a cow and every atom of carbon it breaths/farts out has recently already been in the atmosphere. If anything a cow's existence may actually remove a tiny amount of carbon in the parts of its body that don't decay (or get eaten, yum) when it dies. The only new carbon is in the atmosphere comes when so-called fossil fuel are burned and release carbon that got trapped in things that died millions of years ago. Even that theory on the origin of oil has question marks around it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 5/1/2022 11:05:59 AM (No. 1143331)
This is one of the stupidest things i ever heard of.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
maryann4629 5/1/2022 11:21:39 AM (No. 1143348)
Oh, great. Not content with masking the human population, they have to extend their mandates to the animal kingdom as well.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 5/1/2022 11:24:41 AM (No. 1143352)
I do hope the bonnie Prince will test it on himself first. Pictures or it didn’t happen.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Farmwife1 5/1/2022 11:28:58 AM (No. 1143357)
Cows have four stomachs. They have to "burp" up their food at least 3 times to get it digested. But if anything, they need to strap the "masks" on the cow's backside. That's where the methane is emitting.
By the way we feed ours turnips. You do the math.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 5/1/2022 11:51:46 AM (No. 1143395)
Insanity is their "normal".
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 5/1/2022 11:51:59 AM (No. 1143396)
Now they torture cows.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 5/1/2022 11:58:50 AM (No. 1143408)
Oh, dear God. Please make it stop.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/1/2022 12:25:51 PM (No. 1143425)
What's in the works for cow farts? You know, all the gases that come out the OTHER END of the cow.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
padiva 5/1/2022 12:42:20 PM (No. 1143442)
Can you imagine these masks on all the sacred cows in India?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/1/2022 12:55:04 PM (No. 1143452)
The Prince Charles prize? A gold plated tampon.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/1/2022 2:32:45 PM (No. 1143507)
this is about the most ridiculous things I've read, anywhere, in quite a while -I thought all the bad stuff was coming out the other end, guess not but then again, does anyone think the cows give a damn
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
rochow 5/1/2022 3:35:16 PM (No. 1143555)
Hope this jackass does not ascend to the throne but passes it on to his oldest son. He is about as stupid as the potted plant in the WH!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
glasslass 5/1/2022 3:36:51 PM (No. 1143558)
I wonder if there's a big enough burp mask to cover the "gases" released from the potential
supervolcano in Antarctica that's raising its ugly head. Or, perhaps even worse, a mask to block the putrid gases coming from the crazy Squad and radical left.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/1/2022 11:10:24 PM (No. 1143867)
No mention of testing A & H bombs. Blame it on the poor cows.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/1/2022 11:55:33 PM (No. 1143895)
A new requirement for ALL Politicians and Media to wear! MANDATORY!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 5/2/2022 3:16:34 PM (No. 1144526)
No one ever said cow burps were causing methane emissions. Shouldn't they have invented a cow diaper? The Liberal insanity goes on, unabated.
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