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Posted by michael on from the not-just-for-compost-any-more dept.

TLouden writes "The Rocky Mountain News had an article today about Community Power Corp. and its new BioMax unit which uses renewable resources such as corncobs, sawdust pellets, and coconut shells to produce electricity. This gasifier unit isn't commercially available yet but we might be seeing it sometime in 2004."

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  1. Take the red pill... by cloudless.net · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and realize you are the battery.

  2. Re:Practical? by Gherald · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    > Will it provide enough energy to fuel America, and will we be able to produce enough matter to fuel it?

    Nothing so grandiose. Its for people really paranoid about blackouts who just can't survive for more than a day without a microwave and dishwasher.

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  3. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how many ergs would one cmdrtaco make?

    choke on your own taco

  4. Re:Practical?-OH S***T! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "It may be clean and efficient, but is it practical? Will it provide enough energy to fuel America, and will we be able to produce enough matter to fuel it?"

    I bet all the people who said America's going down the crapper, didn't see this one coming?

  5. Home Taco-snotting Power Generators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. Re:Sooner then later by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  7. Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Power Blackout by Dennis+Halsey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://english.daralhayat.com/arab_news/08-2003/Ar ticle-20030818-14bdd659-c0a8-01ed-0079-6e1c903b755 2/story.html

  8. Think of the web buttons! by SnappingTurtle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I want to be the first hacker to have a server powered by one of these things. Then I can have a great web button: "Powered by Poop".

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