The New York Horse Manure Crisis
Clip: Season 1 Episode 3 | 2m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
Thanks to modern energy innovations, the horse manure crisis simply disappeared.
New York City was a crowded mess: no one could figure out what to do with all the horse manure, urine, and rotting horse carcasses on the streets spreading disease. New York had over 100,000 horses producing over 2.5 million pounds of manure every day. Fossil fuel powered trains, electric streetcars and internal combustion vehicles were seen as the clean-energy alternative.
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The New York Horse Manure Crisis
Clip: Season 1 Episode 3 | 2m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
New York City was a crowded mess: no one could figure out what to do with all the horse manure, urine, and rotting horse carcasses on the streets spreading disease. New York had over 100,000 horses producing over 2.5 million pounds of manure every day. Fossil fuel powered trains, electric streetcars and internal combustion vehicles were seen as the clean-energy alternative.
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