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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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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...."
"If no one were around, you would die from asphyxiation. It is wierd sensation, let me tell you."
you have personal experience dying from asphyxiation? that has to be a first
Beer has been saving this planet for thousands of years. Can you imagine if people had to actually deal with their problems?
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