The Washington Post
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
By Sandhya Somashekhar
DAYTON, Va. -- Do not try to tell Oren Heatwole that chicken poop smells.
"Total myth," he said before a colleague, eager to prove the point, scooped up a mulchy handful and inhaled deeply.
Heatwole, a former chicken farmer, might be biased. But he isn't the only fan of the stuff. Scientists at Virginia Tech are experimenting with technology that would convert what you might call an abundant resource here in the Shenandoah Valley into energy. The effort so jazzed Terry McAuliffe, a candidate for Virginia governor, that he declared, "I love chicken waste!"
But what in any other year would have been an amusing blip in a heated political contest has taken on a unique significance because of the emphasis the candidates have placed on energy and the environment.
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