Comment Animal Power is not reliable (Score 2, Interesting) 221
Well, you probably dont want to have your servers depending on cows (or any other animals). There are some circumstances that they will fail:
- animal disease (e.g. mad cow disease). government might order to kill them to spread its growth.
- crop failure, crop prices. cows depend on food, if a crop failure/desease happens, crop prices will go up, so will be their food, as probably their poo as well.
Beside that, bio-energy does not count the CO needed for stuffing the animal with food, so you might to count all the chemicals, fuel and machinery a farmer will use to grow that animal into account.
Given those unreliableness, you would have to have a long time backup energy for that (like it would take time to get new, uninfected animals in case of an disease).
That given in account I would'nt go for poo-energy and stay with an alternative mix of green energy.