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The 660 Gallon Brewery Fuel Cell
An anonymous reader writes "Australia's University of Queensland has secured a $115,000 grant for a 660-gallon fuel cell that should produce 2 kilowatts of power. A prototype has been operating at the university laboratory for three months. This fuel cell type is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol, plus in this instance produces clean water."
Call me Homer Simpson, but all I heard was "beer, beer, beer, Mmmmm beeerrrr".
So it sits on the campus consuming sugar, starches and alcohol. Just like a graduate student then, except you also get some useful output. Should revolutionize academia; just imagine what this device is capable of once it gets tenure.
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Am I the only one who immediately thought of Bender from Futurama?
It'll be nice to know that beer is saving the planet!
It sounds like a bunch of grad students got together and convinced someone to fund a brewery that they had rigged up in the basement of the science building. I can just picture a bunch of guys sitting around drinking beer and trying to write a grant proposal. "Oh hell, just tell them it's a fucking fuel cell...."
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How many 20 watt bulbs would it be?
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Ditto sex. The three BIG EVILS of the Conservative universe - drinking, gambling and prostitution - could just turn out to be the saviors of the world
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"Six bottles in one hand? That's nothing, those lads at Guinness are powering the entirety of Dublin with their brewery!"
"Electrical power from beer effluvia?! BRILLIANT!"
Waste? Waste?! Methinks they have not thought this "brewing process" through.
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>I like where you're heading. Perhaps we can tap into those darned gaming machines also. These got to be a heap of excess kinetic energy when you slap those buttons.
>Ditto sex. The three BIG EVILS of the Conservative universe - drinking, gambling and prostitution - could just turn out to be the saviors of the world
In the bedroom:
"Honey, what's that?!?!"
"They call it Sex@Home. We have to do our part to stop global warming..."
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Finally someone found a good use for Fosters beer. It's certainly not good for drinking.
Although we do manage to sell it to the Americans and claim that it is beer, they seem to buy it.
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then why the heck is the article titled 660 gallon fuel cell! DAMN YOU EDITORRRS!
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Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin.
A man who knew a bit about both beer and electricity. Think he's smiling down from heaven about this, or puzzled it took us so long?
the phrase 'drunk with power'
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Don't forget the waste : Co2 (carbon dioxide, aka, greenhouse gas)
Easy! CO2 powered keg tappers!
The symmetry of the solution appeals to me for some reason.
*wanders off in search of a breakfast beer*
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