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Kidney Cells Make Implantable Power Source
Galactic_grub writes "New Scientist has an interesting round-up of patents related to green power technology. The ideas mentioned include an implantable power source made from stacks of kidney cells that could drive implanted devices like pacemakers, a chemical way to purifying hydrogen, a buckyball-based filter for methane fuel cells and an organism that turns grass cuttings (and other bio-waste) into ethanol."
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one cell culture chamber wherein live neurons are maintained and grown; and a means for harnessing the thoughts and ideas generated by the live neurons, said means being connected with said neuron culture chamber.
Recalling a time when a working example of the device to be patented had to be presented.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
The faster we switch ethanol production over to cellulose, the better. It would mean that we're not cannibalizing our food supply to make it, and the cost wouldn't be tied to the rising price of corn.
Making our ethanol out of the leftover waste materials is probably the only way ethanol will ever take off in this country.
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One more reason for them to steal my kidneys if I ever go to Mexico.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
- We are getting closer and closer to functional AI.
- Humans are a source of energy.
- I will enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson
Wait... that's not how it was supposed to happen!Just a note about the fullerene filters mentioned in the article, they do not filter methane they filter Methanol specifically they prevent Methanol from diffusing across the memebrane of the fuel cell thus decreasing the amount of Methanol that is wasted.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
No wonder this guy is sick and needs implants. He's lucky he's not dead yet.
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Yes, but after he dies, he can be turned into ethanol, too!
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So just let the fucktards with the fucking weak genes eat god-damned fucking shit and fucking die...
Another plus of that is there will be no fucking shitdot sheeple to fucking post anymore.
GO AHEAD FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GODDAMNED MODPOINTS FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!
Translation: "People with medical problems are genetically inferior to members of the master race, like myself, so they should die out. But unfortunately this important fact will never be known, because the other slashdot users all have medical problems and don't want the Truth to be known!"
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Sure, but in areas like that you're going to see a lot better returns on solar power than areas with high rainfall will. In that respect, this sort of technology will be a complement to solar power. In other words, areas with lots of rain and cloud cover will have more available biomass for fuel, whereas areas without the rainfall will see much more output from solar generators. Ideally, it should balance out, although in actual practice it will certainly be more messy than that.