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Researchers in Ohio are studying the power of pee
NBC ^ | 13 May 2011 | Stephanie Liebergen

Posted on 05/14/2011 12:07:08 PM PDT by mandaladon

ATHENS, Ohio - Researchers at Ohio University are studying a new energy source you can produce yourself. They’re studying the power of pee.

It’s something everyone does, every day. Even though urine is nearly 99 percent water, there is a lot of hydrogen in the remaining one percent from an organic compound called urea.

To break it down, if you could collect the urine from all 24,000 students at Ohio University, you could power 60 buildings every day.

Researchers say there is still a lot of work to be done, but there are some applications of this new technology that could start paying off for businesses very soon.

Until then, our “number one” power source will just keep going down the drain.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcactionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Testing; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: energy; gottagetagrant; greenenergy; greenieweenies; greenpower; napl; ohio; pee; peecollectors; urine; yellowenergy; yellowpower
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To: TheOldLady

Because his policies will go through more easily if we’re all hammered.


61 posted on 05/14/2011 11:25:00 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Just how much pee can one or two people make in a day?

Enough to power a home? A car?

Are we going to be force to pee in a cup, and pour it in the tank?

How do you refine pee?

Is it polite to pee for the EPA?

Questions...I have alot of them.


62 posted on 05/15/2011 12:31:07 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

So it’s our patriotic duty to remain pie eyed at all times? Makes as much sense as anything else zer0 does.

Here we go! Hammered, pie eyed, three sheets to the wind, schnockered, pissed, jober as a sudge, non compos mentis, seeing the elephants, one-eye driving, kneeling at the throne, take his keys, drunk as a skunk, tee martoonies, out of it.


63 posted on 05/15/2011 5:37:05 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: maine-iac7; Drumbo

[pinging Drummie for the, ah, gardening tips within this thread]

>>> (I don’t have a ‘lawn’. I have a ‘yard.’ But I still have to keep the level of the grass down. I’d really like to rent a sheep or a goat and have the yard fertilized at the same time as they ‘mow’ it.)

You might be better off owning the critter, ‘cause you’d never know what it had eaten prior to doing its ‘duty’ on your land. I can attest from personal experience that chickweed seeds can make it through a goat’s system without having been sterilised, and assume it’s the same for all seeds that pass. Never had weeds in the front yard til then. Still, I’d like to have my own mixed herd of goats & sheep. How I hate mowing!


64 posted on 05/17/2011 2:12:13 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!

You can’t spell PEACE or PHYSICS without it.


65 posted on 05/20/2011 1:26:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
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To: mandaladon; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows
To break it down, if you could collect the urine from all 24,000 students at Ohio University, you could power 60 buildings every day.

That would require a lot of mayonnaise jars.

66 posted on 05/20/2011 1:28:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
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To: a fool in paradise

67 posted on 05/20/2011 1:37:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: BwanaNdege

Could not the same concept be applied to home septic tanks?


68 posted on 05/20/2011 1:40:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: maine-iac7

I was on a deserted island in the South China Sea and I stepped on a sea urchin. The only available treatment? Urine. You haven’t lived until you’ve poured your own urine onto your own foot that is covered in sea urchin spines.


69 posted on 05/20/2011 1:41:09 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: maine-iac7

“a chicken-poop furnace”

The smell must have been horrendous.


70 posted on 05/20/2011 1:45:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: a fool in paradise

At least they’ve already got the beer.


71 posted on 05/20/2011 2:02:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Rebelbase

It could, but unless you have a large household the methane yield would not be much.

In Vietnam they figure that 6 hogs will give enough methane for cooking and gas lighting for a family of four.


72 posted on 05/20/2011 2:05:45 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less." M Rosen)
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To: BwanaNdege

Bartertown microcosm.


73 posted on 05/20/2011 2:11:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: thefactor

OUCH!


74 posted on 05/20/2011 3:30:46 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the other hand)
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To: Rebelbase

no - it was dry


75 posted on 05/20/2011 3:32:12 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the other hand)
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