http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0321_060321_dog_power_2.html

Now thats a green idea but imagine the smell.

Talking about the smell, imagine this...............I've just had a phone call at work from a very irate woman complaining that she has been sent another letter about not picking up her dog pooh. She told me that she has kept EVERY SINGLE POOH and labelled it since she got her first letter in a cupboard in her house to prove that she picks up. Considering her first letter was months ago, can you imagine the smell? Her plan to come to the office and dump it on my colleagues desk was thwarted when I told her she would get a fixed penalty for every one of them.

Honestly some people, that one def. has ascrew loose, must have a big cupboard!!!

Yuck how disgusting! The woman must either have a right ol' bee in her bonnet or be a sandwich short of a picnic... ;-)

As for burning it as fuel, its bad enough burning off dirty puppy paper, outdoors in the incinerator. Couldnt imagine the smell from directly burning poop, indoors! :-o
(just read about the methane digester thingy, much better lol!)

I think the heat of incineration used in a CHP system would destroy the smell--it's storing it beforehand that might be the problem. Burning it on an open fire indoors is crazy, but then I have known people who throw disposable diapers on an open fire, and burning the plastic diaper is far more hazardous to human health. I believe there is a draught horse farm open to the public that heats its premises with dung, but the volume produced must be substantial to make this work--the old estate gardens used to heat pineapple crops with composting dung and straw.