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.
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Because his policies will go through more easily if we’re all hammered.
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.
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.
[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!
You can’t spell PEACE or PHYSICS without it.
That would require a lot of mayonnaise jars.
Could not the same concept be applied to home septic tanks?
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.
“a chicken-poop furnace”
The smell must have been horrendous.
At least they’ve already got the beer.
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.
Bartertown microcosm.
OUCH!
no - it was dry
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