The 660 Gallon Brewery Fuel Cell 238
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."
Me Homer (Score:5, Funny)
Good idea (Score:5, Funny)
Bender (Score:4, Funny)
Good to feel again (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I think somebody misunderstood the process. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good idea (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just for reference (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just for reference (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not entirely clean (Score:5, Funny)
you have personal experience dying from asphyxiation? that has to be a first
Imagine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It won't be long now... (Score:3, Funny)
Ditto sex. The three BIG EVILS of the Conservative universe - drinking, gambling and prostitution - could just turn out to be the saviors of the world
Re:Good idea (Score:5, Funny)
For those that aren't from Australia, Vegemite is a foodstuff by-product from brewing. It's chief ingredients are yeast, salt and pain.
Re:Me Homer (Score:2, Funny)
I can see the Guinness advertisement already (Score:3, Funny)
"Electrical power from beer effluvia?! BRILLIANT!"
Waste? (Score:3, Funny)
Waste? Waste?! Methinks they have not thought this "brewing process" through.
Re:It won't be long now... (Score:5, Funny)
>Ditto sex. The three BIG EVILS of the Conservative universe - drinking, gambling and prostitution - could just turn out to be the saviors of the world
In the bedroom:
"Honey, what's that?!?!"
"They call it Sex@Home. We have to do our part to stop global warming..."
Re:Me Homer (Score:1, Funny)
Fosters *ugh* (Score:3, Funny)
Although we do manage to sell it to the Americans and claim that it is beer, they seem to buy it.
Charles
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Violence is the first refuge of the idiot.
Re:Good idea (Score:4, Funny)
I travelled to the UK for the first time this last January. At the hotel breakfast buffet there were some little containers labelled 'Marmite' in with the usual jams, butter, and such so I picked it up. I put it on some toast as I would some jam and took a bite. It was, bar none, the worst culinary experience of my entire life. Whatever you do, DO NOT eat the Marmite! It's so excruciatingly awful it must exist purely as a hidden camera type trick the Brits play on tourists.
Re:Me Homer (Score:3, Funny)
1. make beer
2. drink beer
3. make power with beer
4. ????
5. profit
I just hope they don't use XXXX waste for it... the bacteria will spend more time throwing up than making energy.
Re:Which is not that great for the space.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good to feel again (Score:5, Funny)
Thus the profit spake, (Score:4, Funny)
A man who knew a bit about both beer and electricity. Think he's smiling down from heaven about this, or puzzled it took us so long?
It would give a new meaing to (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Me Homer (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't forget the waste : Co2 (carbon dioxide) (Score:4, Funny)
Easy! CO2 powered keg tappers!
The symmetry of the solution appeals to me for some reason.
*wanders off in search of a breakfast beer*
Re:Good idea (Score:4, Funny)