African girls create generator powered by urine

[Recidiva]

THIS. This is why the world is cool.

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/urine-powered-generator.html

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

So you spend $5000 to make 25 cents worth of electricity. Or you spend $10 at WALMART to buy a solar light.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This is also very cool.

Self healing concrete.

 

[Recidiva]

So you spend $5000 to make 25 cents worth of electricity. Or you spend $10 at WALMART to buy a solar light.

25 cents worth of electricity over and over again, with pee.

It's awesome.

 

[Recidiva]

This is also very cool.

Self healing concrete.

That is very cool. They should fix the bridge in Dover with that.

I wonder what the bacterial temperature range is? It would suck if it died when it isn't in a lab.

 

[butters]

i love these!

that second is a whole new way of thinking. absolutely 21st century - to me, anyway, who knows jack about construction.

 

[butters]

25 cents worth of electricity over and over again, with pee.

It's awesome.

one indefinitely renewable source

 

[Recidiva]

i love these!

that second is a whole new way of thinking. absolutely 21st century - to me, anyway, who knows jack about construction.

We're going in new directions.

I read a book years ago called "Why Science Is Dead" because people with uncreative minds look at a boundary and see a boundary and think we've discovered everything.

Then these bitches fuck them up and that makes me HAPPY.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

That is very cool. They should fix the bridge in Dover with that.

I wonder what the bacterial temperature range is? It would suck if it died when it isn't in a lab.

The way the article read the dormant bacteria can survive for decades.

 

[Recidiva]

The way the article read the dormant bacteria can survive for decades.

That would be very cool. The end of frostheave. Though I still think that's a great character name.

 

[oggbashan]

This is also very cool.

Self healing concrete.

The builders of medieval castles in Europe had an easier solution. Their walls were double-skinned, filled with rubble and lime mortar which was then sealed into the wall still wet.

If a missile struck the outer skin of the wall and made a breach, the wet lime mortar would be exposed to air and start to set, sealing the breach. The rubble and the lime mortar had absorbed the initial shock of the missile's impact, protecting the inner skin of the wall.

Bodiam Castle in Sussex has walls built like this. When the National Trust did some repair work in the 1990s they found that the old lime mortar was still fluid and active. It made their repair tasks more difficult because they had to ensure that the lime mortar remained airtight or else it flowed all over their workings.

 

[Comshaw]

We're going in new directions.

I read a book years ago called "Why Science Is Dead" because people with uncreative minds look at a boundary and see a boundary and think we've discovered everything.

Then these bitches fuck them up and that makes me HAPPY.

The use of bio manipulated bacteria is cool, but it also is full of danger. Sometimes things go sideways. Just think introduction of an alien species to an environment not ready for them. Cane toads, Starlings, Kudzu, house cats and Sliver Carp come to mind.

What could go wrong with a bacteria like this? A tiny miss step, a small miscalculation and you have a limestone eating bacteria rather then one that produces it. When the concrete edifices of our civilization start to collapse from being consumed by such a bacteria, what then?

Yea, bio manipulation makes my butt pucker for sure. There are times to charge ahead and times to go slow. To my mind this is one subject that should have a huge speed limit on it.

Comshaw



Comshaw

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

25 cents worth of electricity over and over again, with pee.

It's awesome.

The world is impressed with yet another how to spend a dollar to make a dime scheme.

 

[butters]

The world is impressed with yet another how to spend a dollar to make a dime scheme.

that'd be spending a penny

 

[Recidiva]

The builders of medieval castles in Europe had an easier solution. Their walls were double-skinned, filled with rubble and lime mortar which was then sealed into the wall still wet.

If a missile struck the outer skin of the wall and made a breach, the wet lime mortar would be exposed to air and start to set, sealing the breach. The rubble and the lime mortar had absorbed the initial shock of the missile's impact, protecting the inner skin of the wall.

Bodiam Castle in Sussex has walls built like this. When the National Trust did some repair work in the 1990s they found that the old lime mortar was still fluid and active. It made their repair tasks more difficult because they had to ensure that the lime mortar remained airtight or else it flowed all over their workings.

That I did not know, that is very cool.

How well would that work in a genuine siege though? Did it deter people or just make them really really mad? I imagine a few trebuchets would overcome that.

 

[Recidiva]

The use of bio manipulated bacteria is cool, but it also is full of danger. Sometimes things go sideways. Just think introduction of an alien species to an environment not ready for them. Cane toads, Starlings, Kudzu, house cats and Sliver Carp come to mind.

What could go wrong with a bacteria like this? A tiny miss step, a small miscalculation and you have a limestone eating bacteria rather then one that produces it. When the concrete edifices of our civilization start to collapse from being consumed by such a bacteria, what then?

Yea, bio manipulation makes my butt pucker for sure. There are times to charge ahead and times to go slow. To my mind this is one subject that should have a huge speed limit on it.



Comshaw

I agree with you except that for me this is like a gun control issue.

The tech is there, let's have good people use it, because bad people certainly will.

It's a bit of an arms race.

 

[Recidiva]

The world is impressed with yet another how to spend a dollar to make a dime scheme.

You'd be right except that the dollar is pee and the dime is electricity.

So you're not really right.

Anyway, admit that most technology begins ridiculously clunky and unwieldy, but refinements over time result in things that in this case are going to provide the potential for whole pee-driven cities. Just imagine it. You're out of gas, but you have a soda...

 

[Comshaw]

I agree with you except that for me this is like a gun control issue.

The tech is there, let's have good people use it, because bad people certainly will.

It's a bit of an arms race.

Precisely....speed limit = reliable, intelligent people doing the development without a rush to get to market. That's when shortcuts are used and appropriate safeguards are bypassed.


Comshaw

 

[Recidiva]

Precisely....speed limit = reliable, intelligent people doing the development without a rush to get to market. That's when shortcuts are used and appropriate safeguards are bypassed.


Comshaw

Yeah, I do hope that the right tests are happening.

There's a lot of bad science out there, just looking for funding and not so much with the innovation.

 

[thør]

The end of frostheave.

Not necessarily. Frost heave will still occur.

 

[Recidiva]

Not necessarily. Frost heave will still occur.

Dammit, thor, I'm dreaming here.

That's the word I discovered in Alaska that has stuck with me since. I just wanted to say it, man.

 

[AZMotherLover]

They're calling it the "Jenkem Generator."

 

[BotanyBoy]

The world is impressed with yet another how to spend a dollar to make a dime scheme.

Anything to save coal!! Even lie and live in total fuckin' denial of the real world!

You're such a sadly partisan piece of fuckin' shit....

 

[Recidiva]

They're calling it the "Jenkem Generator."

Oh, ya made me Google.

Dammit.

 

[Everyday_Man]

They're calling it the "Jenkem Generator."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwhot4ZziM ... the quality isn't good, but nothing good comes from Jenkem.