new energy source

[leopold]

since my last hair brained idea went over like a lead balloon i have decided to post another.

a bio engineered electric eel to power electric cars

what do you think?

 

[Mosheh Thezion]

how about a metabolic battery you can feed food to.... even wood.
-MT

 

[guthrie]

Nope. FIrst you have to keep the eel alive, then you need to feed it, then you need to get the electricity out in a useable form. You'd be better off just using batteries. Remember electric eels use pulses of electricity, and you need a long, powerful continous current.

 

[Mosheh Thezion]

we could bio-engineer a massive version of the actual glands that produce the charge and feed it artificially... like keeping a liver alive in a tank.

then we can efficiently work it...

the problem with the eel is that it has a body and muscles, and it moves..
it has a nervous system... etc.. etc...

all we need is the electric genereating glands or whatever.

-MT

 

[valich]

Methane gas!

"Scientists working on cure for farting cows: aim to lower methane pollution. Cows belching and breaking wind cause methane pollution, but British scientists say they have developed" - a way to harness it as fuel!

http://digg.com/science/Scientists_working_on_cure_for_farting_cows:_aim_to_lower_methane_pollution

 

[guthrie]

valich, theres nothing about harnessing it as fuel there, just about stopping it happen by feeding the cows something. Besides, biogas made from manure etc has been about for decades.

 

[cato]

if you are talking about using biological orginisms to produce fuel, you should think bacteria.
like this:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1109_051109_rocketfuel.html
or:http://www.energycooperation.org/bioproductionH2.htm

 

[leopold]

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