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Bio-diesel Made from Sewage
tito writes "A New Zealand company has successfully turned sewage into modern-day gold. New Zealand Herald is reporting that a Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds.
It is believed to be the world's first commercial production of bio-diesel from 'wild' algae outside the laboratory - and the company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million litres of the fuel each year from Blenheim by April."
sewage coming out of the tailpipe or french fries?
Finally we are going to be able to use our waste to ease some form of our lives.
I can already think of a slogon- "Waste makes haste"
to burrito gas powering cars instead of just stinking them up.
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An inventor, Mr. Simpson from Springfield, has invented a new car seatto be used in conjunction with the vehicles that will run on sewage bio-diesel.
Simpson said, "It's just a prototype right now, but it has been my lifelong dream to contribute something truly my own to this bio-movement."
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My car already runs LIKE shit, now it can run ON shit as well.
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Was there ever a greater incentive to overtake the vehicle in front of you?
Covering the entire surface of the United States with shit eating algae sounds like a step in the right direction... can we start in Washington?
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So....there webpage looks like shit?
Brown gold! Kiwi tea! Uh, oh, I think I've got a gusher...
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
They say that the bio-diesel made from used cooking oil makes the emission smell like french fries. Sort of makes you wonder what sewage is going to smell like.
Some might say it's already started.
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Humans contain lipids.
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You can produce bio-diesel from a vast diversity of lifeforms as long as they contain lipids.
"Soylent diesel is made from PEOPLE! It's PEOPLE!!!!!!"
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I can see the farmers smiling and laughing at what we have all known for years. They now have proof that the more beans you eat the more bio fuel you can produce. So, quit lighting your farts and put them to good use.
This has the be the shittyest idea I have ever heard!
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Then fill up the tank with premium, because I want to associate with only quality people.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
So... instead of an oil shortage, we'll seen have a waste shortage?
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Well, filling a 15 gallon tank on two cars weekly for a year = 1560 gallons. So at 5000 gallons per acre per year, if all the open space of a large half-acre suburban lot were devoted to your personal sewage farm, you could just squeak by. Plus you'd save on home security bills, what with the giant moat of fecal slime surrounding your house. And you'd reduce tension with the neighbors, because you'd welcome your neighbor's dog crapping in your yard.
This could solve the obesity crisis and energy crisis at the same time! Instead of driving around on your fat ass, you'll be driving around on your ass fat! So how much of this untapped resource is there? Let's see:
Should Middle East cut off the tap, it will become the patriotic duty of every overweight person to donate their fat for biodiesel production. We'll no longer have an obesity crisis. We'll have a Strategic Lipid Reserve.
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