访谈录 2008-04-13&4-15 芝士工厂的绿色农副产品

Our Making a Different report tonight is how Brothers are going green, a little bit at a time, by transforming an American tradition. Here is NBC’s Roger O’Neil down on the farm in Wisconsin.

 

Making fine Wisconsin cheese drives the economic engine of the Crave¹ Brothers farm. But electricity turns the molders of their milk engines. With 6 thousand dollar a month utilities bills, the brothers forward decided² to make their own power, from something Charles, the idea brother, knew they had an endless supplier. Manure³.

 

I have been dreaming of this for 25 or 30 years, *have an entrance to try to do things better than what has been done in the past. 5 years ago when the Crave Brothers decided to turn the dairy farm into a cheese factory, more than a few thought they have been off more than they could chew. But Brothers’ sale has a leap of fame then, right now, turning Manure into electricity. What looks like a giant cook pot is now converting the cows’ waste into methane⁴ gas, which generates a lot of electricity to power the farm and an extra 120 of their neighbors’ homes.

 

George is the Brothers’ visionary. It takes a little bit of stress, a little bit imagination. As we mold our cow, we have been able to power a lot more homes, and it will be good for everyone in our community.

 

And what’s left after the Manure makes methane gas is a new *free patting soil and a new liquid fertilizer the Craves⁵ put on their fields.

 

Mark, the baby brother, says utilizing⁶ all of the farm waste just make sense. I don’t leave it to myself as an active environmentalist is what I do. It all posts together increase productivity, better conservation for the soil and the water.

 

Brothers’s responsible to each other, their community and the changing the future through innovation. One bowl of Mozzarella at a time.  

 

Roger O’Neil, NBC news, Waterloo, Wisconsin.

 

1 crave   

vt.渴望得到，迫切需要，恳求，请求

参考例句：

• Many young children crave attention.许多小孩子渴望得到关心。
• You may be craving for some fresh air.你可能很想呼吸呼吸新鲜空气。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 manure   

n.粪，肥，肥粒；vt.施肥

参考例句：

• The farmers were distributing manure over the field.农民们正在田间施肥。
• The farmers used manure to keep up the fertility of their land.农夫们用粪保持其土质的肥沃。

4 methane   

n.甲烷，沼气

参考例句：

• The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
• Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。

5 craves   

渴望，热望( crave的第三人称单数 )； 恳求，请求

参考例句：

• The tree craves calm but the wind will not drop. 树欲静而风不止。
• Victory would give him a passport to the riches he craves. 胜利将使他有机会获得自己梦寐以求的财富。

6 utilizing   

v.利用，使用( utilize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Utilizing an assembler to produce a machine-language program. 用汇编程序产生机器语言的过程。 来自辞典例句
• The study and use of devices utilizing properties of materials near absolute zero in temperature. 对材料在接近绝对零度时的特性进行研究和利用的学科。 来自辞典例句