Banana Power! 51
ackthpt writes "What do you do with rotten bananas, assuming you don't have 1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? Especially a bit of a quandry if you grow bananas and 30% of your crop goes to waste? Bill Clarke, an engineering lecturer at the University of Queensland has devised a way to generate electric power, potentially enough for 500 homes, from the waste of Northern Queensland banana plantations. Nuts and bolts issues like if it's ultimately practical to haul the bananas, decompose them to methane and disposal of waste have yet to be worked out -- don't expect this to power your laptop just yet."
So that's what you do with them (Score:3, Funny)
OK, I'm never eating banana bread again.
Re:So that's what you do with them (Score:3, Informative)
Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bannannas. - Groucho Marx
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Will there still be bananas in ten years? (Score:4, Interesting)
Banana Drives... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Banana Drives... (Score:2, Funny)
don't expect this to power your laptop just yet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:don't expect this to power your laptop just yet (Score:2, Funny)
Introducing the new bPod from Apple! No need to send in for a new battery... just let the old one decay, then peel yourself a new one!
1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? (Score:5, Funny)
Like, stirring a few ingredients together and throwing it in the oven?
If those are 1337 5k1ll2, then my cat, Fluffy, is a forking genius, I taught her to do just that this morning. Shit, she's been making me breakfast for years!
Granted, she really disliked mushing the bananas with her paws...
Re:1337 5k1ll2 in baking banana bread? (Score:1, Funny)
...but she doesn't mind as much when she's just come from the litterbox, eh?
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What about my time machine? (Score:4, Funny)
Banana what? (Score:3, Funny)
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Aaaaaarrrggghhhhh!!! A curse! A curse upon thee! It's in my head and it won't go away!
ringringringringbananaphoneringringringringringban anaphone!!!
Banana Bread, recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse (Score:5, Informative)
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup macadamia nuts
Pinch of cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Oil and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
Using an electric mixer, cream the shortening and sugar. With the mixer running on medium speed, add the eggs one at a time. Add the bananas and mix well. Add the baking soda, salt, flour, nuts and cinnamon and mix thoroughly. The dough will be sticky.
Pour the dough into the prepared pan and bake about one hour or until the center is brown and set.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/
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Make sure that you know what ripe means. (Score:5, Informative)
Let those things get some nice big black spots on them. That's the full banana flavor developing.
Take it from the experts - the fruit flies. If you give them a choice, they will always pick the squishy banana over the not-ripe-enough yellow ones. And you should too.
Re:Make sure that you know what ripe means. (Score:2)
Besides, it's probably much easier for a creature that simple to digest.
Something tells me fruit flies aren't gourmands.
Re:Banana Bread, recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse (Score:3, Insightful)
So you say, and indeed, I can follow your directions very closely and come out with something approaching an edible loaf (cake? lump?) of Banana Bread.
But for someone with 1337 b@k1n6 5k1llz, watching me attempt this feat would be painful! To me, the phrase "Using an electric mixer, cream the shortening and sugar" is as meaningless as "Using a text editor, replace carriage returns with HTML paragraph tags" to a non-geek. Where do I turn the knobby dealie for "cream"? Why do I have t
Re:Banana Bread, recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse (Score:3, Interesting)
Forgive me, that was cheap. But really, even I have absorbed enough cooking knowledge to know what creaming butter and sugar together is. And it's really not hard to figure out, just like it's not that hard to figure out what new command you'll have to master to get that script working.
If anything, the Internet has probably affected the world of coding first, and the world of cooking next. Both fields require judicious application of ingredients and basic formulas, and both allow
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Wait for it.. (Score:3, Funny)
Banana bread (Score:1)
OK, so this is Slashdot and I should say something technical about it, so:
the BananaKernel [sourceforge.net]
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Bananadine! (Score:1, Funny)
Wait, you say that musa sapientum bananadine isn't real? That it was brought about by a combination of too many drugs and an over-active imagination? But it has to be true, I read it on the Internet! [google.com]
Re:Bananadine! (Score:2)
it did nothing but give us headaches. first we rolled it in rolling papers and smoked it, nothing happened, so we loaded up the bong... still nothing.
tasted nice, though.
Scientists need some common sense (Score:5, Informative)
500 homes * $100/month electicity * 12 months = $600,000/year income generated.
That wouldn't even cover the salaries of the employees running the plant, nevermind the cost of construction.
What might make more sense is to use the bananas along with other biowaste in a large scale plant.
Or how about just donate them to the zoo. Monkeys don't care about small/bruised bananas
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If this is automated or small enough to be on the plantation it would be economic.
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Unfortunately, your numbers omit one observation that might make you quite correct: the cost of banana transportation. If it takes 60 kg of bananas t
No, no, no! (Score:2, Funny)
and if you dont believe me, read this (http://antibanana.8m.com/ [8m.com] )
bananapocalypse (Score:3, Interesting)
Question about the soil... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Question about the soil... (Score:2, Insightful)
With tears in my eyes (Score:2)
Special thanks go to adeyadey [slashdot.org] for the Antibanana [8m.com] link, and to dacarr [slashdot.org] for the bananaphone [coofercat.com] link. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
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Re:With tears in my eyes (Score:1)
Just do a quick search for the word "apple"
"How do you like dem apples?"
it's QUANDARY, you insensitive clod! (Score:1, Troll)
Nobody said this yet? C'mon (Score:1)
Last time, it was gonna be a source of PAPER... (Score:1, Insightful)
Sorry, gang, I once fell for a report on the ABC
suggesting that banana trees could be made into
high-strength paper... enough & cheaply enough
to enable all the world's plastic shopping bags
to go south...
Nope... 'didn't happen... all we could find (for
a potentially large overseas investor) was a very
amateurish web site, suggesting that the trees
could be made into [furry-like] business cards.
Couldn't even get a sample of either "miracle"
paper product from anybody even remotely con-