There’s something rotten in the cows of Denmark. And Minnesota. And Wisconsin. And Idaho. What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine? A Danish farmer calls a special investigator, who takes one look at his farm and nopes the heck out of there, refusing to return, citing “bad energy” coming from something nearby … a big building covered in Viking runes. 
It’s not magic. It’s an invisible force that’s far more common. And yet deeply mysterious.
This episode plunges producers Matt Kielty and Simon Adler knee-deep in a decades-old dairy farm controversy, rooted in a fundamental suspicion of the invisible streams of electrons that keep our world humming.
Special thanks to Dr. Liz Brock
EPISODE CREDITS: 
 Reported by - Matt Kielty and Simon Adler
 with help from - Clara Grunnet and Rebecca Rand
 Produced by - Matt Kielty
 with help from - Maria Paz Gutierrez
 Original music from - Jeremy Bloom and Matt Kielty
 Sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom
 Mixed by - Jeremy Bloom
 Fact-checking by - Angely Mercado and Sophie Samiee
 and Edited by  - Pat Walters
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Books -
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 <li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052122/the-great-energy-transition/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Great Energy Transition: America from 1876 to 1929</a> (<a href="https://zpr.io/3PStsDgidpj5" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://zpr.io/3PStsDgidpj5</a>), by David Nye</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12690/powering-american-farms?srsltid=AfmBOopJDVRjXw6RkfucrLvRtDjQVPboO3U5yLww8P2aybml2ZtU3glI" rel="noopener noreferrer">Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification</a> (<a href="https://zpr.io/GdQ4pMCy4DAV" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://zpr.io/GdQ4pMCy4DAV</a>), by Richard Hirsch</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.vacaresources.com/index.php/online-store/books-by-doc-sanders/beyond-the-barn-detail" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beyond the Barn – Dodging Cow Patties for 50 Years by a Country Vet</a> (<a href="https://zpr.io/S8qS9HLEQBJe" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://zpr.io/S8qS9HLEQBJe</a>), by Don Sanders a memoir about his long career.</li>
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