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The Power of Sewage

Posted by michael on from the flush-your-problems-away dept.

Eridanis writes ""The waste you flush down the toilet could one day power the lights in your home. So say researchers at Pennsylvania State University who last week revealed they have developed an electricity generator fuelled by sewage." Hey, it seems that EA will have to create a new building for Simcity!"

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  1. Re:America.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's the combined spirit of the ghosts of Polititians Past, Present and Future.

    Besides, anyone who can't change their mind after being presented with new information has no place in office.

  2. Oh, great.... by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now we're going to have a war to liberate the sewers....

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  3. Why EA? by BigZaphod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shouldn't Maxis be the ones adding stuff to their games?

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  4. Re:America.. by then,+it+was+nigh · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "My opinion is subject to change without warning."

    Sen. Kerry? Is that you??

    No, it's George Bush.

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  5. Reality check by Spamalamadingdong · · Score: 4, Insightful
    51 KW from 100,000 people = 0.51 W/capita.

    You're not going to run even one room light from this. You could use it to keep your cell phone and PDA charged, but you could probably do that just as well with generators in the soles of your shoes and gain mobility in the bargain.

    (Yeah, I know everyone's playing this for yucks. You can see me as a wet blanket or a straight man, your choice.)

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  6. So that's where it goes... by uberdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, I've always figured there was a problem with all those calorie counting books. A single chocolate doughnut takes a half hour of aerobics to burn off. Riiight! Sure it does. Calories in=Calories out sure. The books all assume calories out=background metabolism+exercise. However, calories out=background metabolism +exercise+waste. They miss this third component.

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  7. Re:Article is based on a false premise by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    huh? it is not running off any premis except that it is digesting the materials like the processing plant, but rather than letting that electron rejoin its friends when it is released, they create an anerobic environmnet which allows them to capture it, which creates a voltage diffrence in the anode, which they can use to make power....the methane gas can still be used to power the other processes in a treatment plant as they are already.

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  8. Re:America.. by msimm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It looks like more people took offense to this then I'd imagined. I was joking, but think about it a little. Americans may not 'all be full of shit' but as a wealthy consumer nation I think it would be hard to argue that we don't produce a good deal of solid waste.

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