Banana Power!

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Posted by michael on Friday August 27, 2004 @05:28AM from the we-have-no-bananas-today dept.

ackthpt writes "What do you do with rotten bananas, assuming you don't have 1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? Especially a bit of a quandry if you grow bananas and 30% of your crop goes to waste? Bill Clarke, an engineering lecturer at the University of Queensland has devised a way to generate electric power, potentially enough for 500 homes, from the waste of Northern Queensland banana plantations. Nuts and bolts issues like if it's ultimately practical to haul the bananas, decompose them to methane and disposal of waste have yet to be worked out -- don't expect this to power your laptop just yet."

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So that's what you do with them by Leffe · 2004-08-27 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

What do you do with rotten bananas, assuming you don't have 1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread?

OK, I'm never eating banana bread again.
Banana Drives... by IamInsane · 2004-08-27 05:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah I can see it now, the next MS Win hack, it now spits out all your old banana's from your laptop battery making a mess on the floor. Great.... I think I'll pass.
1. Re:Banana Drives... by IamInsane · 2004-08-27 05:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Oh yeah forgot "WARNING: Your battery level is at 10%. Please insert banana then press okay to continue or press cancel now to allow windows to go into Hibernate mode."
don't expect this to power your laptop just yet... by Shadow+Wrought · 2004-08-27 05:39 · Score: 5, Funny

You tell me this with three, THREE! bananas already in the pcmcia slot. Dangnabbit!

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1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? by Chasuk · 2004-08-27 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread?

Like, stirring a few ingredients together and throwing it in the oven?

If those are 1337 5k1ll2, then my cat, Fluffy, is a forking genius, I taught her to do just that this morning. Shit, she's been making me breakfast for years!

Granted, she really disliked mushing the bananas with her paws...

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1. Re:1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-27 06:18 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Granted, she really disliked mushing the bananas with her paws...
  ...but she doesn't mind as much when she's just come from the litterbox, eh?
What about my time machine? by cryptor3 · 2004-08-27 05:45 · Score: 3, Funny

When will they perfect a way to use these bananas to power the flux capacitor in my Delorean?
Banana what? by dacarr · 2004-08-27 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Beats the hell out of Banana phone any day, I suppose.

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Re:don't expect this to power your laptop just yet by RexDart · 2004-08-27 05:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Think of the possibilities for other electronics devices:
Introducing the new bPod from Apple! No need to send in for a new battery... just let the old one decay, then peel yourself a new one!

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Wait for it.. by adeyadey · 2004-08-27 05:55 · Score: 2, Funny

"I will show you the power of my banana" jokes in 3.. 2.. 1..

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Bananadine! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-27 05:59 · Score: 1, Funny

What to do with tons of left-over bananas? Simple, take the peels, extract the bananadine, and smoke it!

Wait, you say that musa sapientum bananadine isn't real? That it was brought about by a combination of too many drugs and an over-active imagination? But it has to be true, I read it on the Internet!
No, no, no! by adeyadey · 2004-08-27 06:03 · Score: 1, Funny

Bananas are Evil!

and if you dont believe me, read this (http://antibanana.8m.com/ )

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