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Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage
pitterpatter writes "A researcher trying to find a use for them claims that after being heated enough to carbonize, chicken feathers hold as much hydrogen as carbon nanotubes do. So chicken feather charcoal might solve the storage problem for the new hydrogen economy. One problem down, half a zillion to go."
Chicken McNuggets.
We can finally power our homes with chicken.
*pulls up to full service Hydrogen fueling station*
"Just put three Leghorns in the tank."
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Jenny-mae, I tole you not to let Billy-Bob alone with the chickens and the lighter fluid!
But Mary-Sue, Billy-Bob's up and solved the Hydrogen Nanostorage Problem! He saved the world! Solved global warming! Ther gonna give him a NOBEL!
So? I'm still makin myself scarce when Pa starts askin what happened to those Chickens!
Carbonized chickens are perfectly safe.
Weaponized chickens, on the other hand, cause mass destclucktion (especially when filled with H).
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
This is clucking good news!
Well, they started out using horse feathers, once they figured out how to get down off of one.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I remember hearing about an aircraft canopy design being tested against bird strike by having dead chickens fired at it via an air cannon. It was the best emulation they could come up with.
They couldn't find any volunteers. They were all chicken.
== First cross river, then insult alligator.
of what you're talking about. ;-)
He didn't mean to say thawed chickens twice. I think he meant to say that thawed chickens busted windscreens as well as thawed roosters.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Adam and Jamie revisited that one after they found that the windshield they used wasn't rated for bird strikes. After the revisit, they did prove that thawed chickens did not penetrate as far as frozen ones. See episode 14 from the 2004 season.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
Don't you dare interfere with my 2nd Amendment right to bear poultry!
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
"He experimented for years with various ways to use feathers and eventually wondered if they might store hydrogen."
Now did the professor just wake one one day and say "Aha! I know how to solve the energy crisis! Chicken feathers!"? It seems to be very original thinking.
D'oh!
Should have been
thawed chickens busted the windscreens as effecively as frozen chickens.
Good catch, and thanks for pointing out the fowl up!
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Married?
It uses chicken feathers. You'll have plenty of bare poultry.
We get to piss off the vegans, environmentalists, and anti-environmentalists, all at the same time!
This is fucking BRILLIANT!
No. Wrath0fb0b is correct.
You know, the internet has obliterated the idea of normalcy for me.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
I said 8 meters, Einstein.
I think that all your past head trauma may have affected you more than you realize.