How A Thousand Pounds Of Butter Becomes Three Days’ Worth Of Energy

How A Thousand Pounds Of Butter Becomes Three Days’ Worth Of Energy: "A dizzy­ing fall from grace is in store for the Penn­syl­va­nia Farm Show’s famed but­ter sculpture.

Through tomor­row, the thousand-pound work of art will be the star attrac­tion of the annual indoor agri­cul­ture fes­ti­val. Thou­sands of peo­ple have snapped pic­tures of the refrig­er­ated sculp­ture, which depicts a boy lead­ing his prize-winning calf through a county fair.

Next week, how­ever, a Juni­ata County farmer will uncer­e­mo­ni­ously dump it into a manure pit.

That’s because he’s turn­ing the sculp­ture into methane gas. One thou­sand pounds of but­ter, it turns out, cre­ates enough energy to power a farm for three days...."