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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."

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  1. 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

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  2. Re:Not entirely clean by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Producing alcohol produces *VAST* amounts of CO2.

    The whole CO2 thing is just total FUD. Mars is warming just as fast as we are. In the historical record, CO2 lags warming, it doesn't lead it, and no surprise, with the water vapor cycle running at many times the speed of the CO2 cycle and directly tied to temperature, which our current CO2 generation is not. Global warming is real, all right, but it sure as heck isn't CO2 that is causing it. Look up. See that yellow thing? That's a free-running fusion reaction, and it makes a lot of heat at rates that are known to vary, and that is by far the most likely candidate for what is causing the warming we (and mars) are experiencing.

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  3. Re:Not entirely clean by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can mod that post troll all you want. Those are all facts, and no amount of politically correct moaning - or modding - will change those facts. Anyone who isn't taken in by the groupthink can check those facts and they'll find they are 100% accurate. The conclusion says "most likely candidate" and that too is a reasonable statement given the facts at hand.

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