Biomass Electric Battery
Around this time last year a team of engineering students at MIT created an electric battery that would charge using leaves and grass clippings - essentially biomass. The entire project only cost ~$2 because no precious metals were used but the down side is that it would take nearly half a year just to charge a normal cell phone!
While this product isn't all that useful in it's current state, discoveries from small experiments like this will lead to better composting and eventually biomass solutions for the masses. What if your home compost heap with rotten food, banana peals, and yard waste was feeding electricity into your home instead of just stinking up the yard? What if instead of emptying leftovers into the garbage disposal you put them into a biomass electric car? Furthermore, at the very basic level of composting, the end waste could still be used as fertilizer even after peak electricity had been generated using techniques similar to those demonstrated by this MIT team.
Other more recent breakthroughs in Solar technology at MIT are getting us even closer to living in closed loop energy environments.
While this product isn't all that useful in it's current state, discoveries from small experiments like this will lead to better composting and eventually biomass solutions for the masses. What if your home compost heap with rotten food, banana peals, and yard waste was feeding electricity into your home instead of just stinking up the yard? What if instead of emptying leftovers into the garbage disposal you put them into a biomass electric car? Furthermore, at the very basic level of composting, the end waste could still be used as fertilizer even after peak electricity had been generated using techniques similar to those demonstrated by this MIT team.
Other more recent breakthroughs in Solar technology at MIT are getting us even closer to living in closed loop energy environments.Is Corn Getting too Expensive?
You don't have to own an ethanol stock to know that the media and the people who believe what they have to say have become apoplectic in their disdain for ethanol over the past year. Many pundits are parroting each other and blaming ethanol as the root cause for rising food prices and worldwide food shortages. They do this with such conviction that you'd think they must spend their free time collecting bushels of corn to donate to starving people of the world when they are not pontificating on the topic. There's only one problem with their assertions: They are...Headlines:
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