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I am not sure human feces burn as well as herbivore manure.

Cow and horse feces look pretty different from human feces, drier and "herbal", and I would be surprised if they share the same combustive properties.

Sheep/goat/rabbit also seem naturally much drier than human tho I've never investigated their internals :)

Edit: on a second thought, cow shit is not particularly dry

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You have to dry it before using it as a fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_dung_fuel: “Dry dung fuel (or dry manure fuel) is animal feces that has been dried in order to be used as a fuel source.”

of course, I just thought that once dried there would not be much left compared to the one from herbivores. Seems I'm wrong tho :)

On the Great Plains, it was "bois de vache", though the vaches in question were bison.

Sun dried cow shit is still used as a fuel source in India. You can even buy it on Amazon [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Fresh-Cakes-Religious-Purpose-Handmade...

Wow. There's something absurd about selling dung branded and in bubble wrap.

It's all about the user experience.

This could be a ripe market for disruption. DaaS (dung as a service). YC 2023.

A lot of people there put it on the walls of their houses, too, for reasons that aren't clear to me.

To dry it.

They claim:

- Burning cow dung cake in your holy function icrease positive energy and kill all bacteria and germs and purify air also .

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