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Sewage To Be Turned Into H
Anonymous Howard writes "The New Scientist website reports in this article that British scientists are working on a more efficient way to convert sewage and other wet waste into hydrogen fuel. It sounds fairly promising."
Man, when I first read that I was like... I'm livin in Britain now!!
Oil vanishes
World has energy crisis
Turn poop into fuel
they pay the resource creators... If they do, I'll be eating quite a bit more fiber!
Hydrogen, I thought it mean ecchi.
Never mind.
This
now i have the second step in my plan to rule the world...
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1. Collect poop
2.
3. Be rich as Gates and rule the world.
I don't even want to think about the implications of making this Open Source.... Not to mention the kernals...
We'll FINALLY be able to run our cars off garbage like that DeLorean in Back to the Future...
I swear I just saw one of those hybrid cars go by.. ;P
wait..
snifff
whats that smell?
There once was a fuel researcher from Wales
Who might have had one too many ales...
He said "You might think I'm nuts"
"We can get hydrogen from our butts"
"And fill our gas tanks with our tails!"
If we could turn sewage into energy where I work, our weekly staff meetings could light Las Vegas.
Exactly -- I think methane also has a higher energy density (by weight and volume) than hydrogen -- that eases the storage and transportation problems.
However, if they really want to solve all the nation's energy problems then all they need to do is install a huge heat-exchanger and steam-turbine in Congress.
There's enough hot air in their to keep the nation running forever!
This is exciting - I think that between the public bathrooms and the grease bins, McDonald's will become an energy company, and start giving away food for profit!
Ronald McDonald hereby accepts the Nobel Prize for ending world hunger...
"I am a cipher, a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce" -Jimmy James
You gotta admit: There's a LOT more profit to be made turning sewage into heroin than turning it into hydrogen.
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Now we'll have to import shit from the middle east.
Actually, I've drank lye solution before by accident. We were making hydrogen baloons and using the same beer bottles we were drinking as reaction vessles. Bad lab technique, I realize.
So, from my experienice, it's unlikely you'd actually swallow it because as soon as it hits the warm part of your tongue and begins to react your body tells you something is very wrong and you tend to spit it out violently and start rinsing with water.
I was with a bunch of drunk idiots who wouldn't take it seriously and call the ambulance, so I ran into a nearby grocery store and grabbed a bunch of lemons thinking this would be the logical solution to the problem --I was inexperienced in these matters at the time and not thinking very clearly.
So, I just grab a lemon right there in the store and bite into it. Holy shit! It was the wrong thing to do, the reaction was violent and excruciatingly painful. The bloody red chunk of lemon fell from my drooling mouth as I sank to the floor in drool and tears.
There was two old ladies in the produce section and when they saw what I had done and the blood on the yellow lemons they pushed each other into the bread isle looking quite concerned.
Being in such a bizarre state, I insisted on trying the lemons again. So, I bundled a bunch of them in my shirt and sat down in the cereal section forcing myself to bite down on them and moaning.
Finally, I went up to the cashier with the bloody chunks of chewed lemon and tried to smile and act casual and I said through my screwed up mouth --"I wanted to see if they were any good."
The fucker didn't even laugh.
So, I got back to the house and my associates had started to straighten up a bit in my absence. They informed me that the lye bottle itself said not to use acids if ingested and they gave me some half and half which was what the bottle suggested and it instantly eased the pain. It was like the fire went out.
So, I thought my mouth was fucked. I called poison control and they said it was too late to do anything. I'd just have to live with it.
Well, the next day I looked in the mirror and I was terrified. My gums had receeded quite a bit and my tongue looked like hell. My cheeks and lips had clearly lost tissue. I was way way bummed.
But in the end, it turned out to be no big deal. Within three days my mouth had more or less totally healed and I swear my breath was fresher than ever and my taste buds seemed totally alive and sensitive to delicate tastes. For about a year, I was overly sensitive to anything basic, but it went away.
Certain forms of hydrogen are extremely dangerous to handle.
Especially that nasty Dihydrogen Monoxide!!!
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