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forest | 9 Sep 2005 16:30

running on PEE <DON'T laugh...this is true>


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URINE BATTERY TURNS PEE INTO POWER
By John  Roach
National Geographic News
August 18, 2005

_http://tinyurl.com/a99c2_ (http://tinyurl.com/a99c2)

Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power
John Roach
for National Geographic News
August 18, 2005

Before you next flush the toilet, consider this: Scientists in Singapore
have developed a battery powered by urine.

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology created
the credit card-size battery as a disposable power source for medical test
kits. 

Scientists have been scrambling to create smaller, more efficient, and less
expensive "biochips" to test for diseases such as diabetes. Until now,
however, similarly small batteries to power the devices remained elusive.

Diagnostic test kits commonly analyze the chemical composition of a person's
urine to detect a malady. Ki Bang Lee and his colleagues realized that the
substance being tested‹urine‹could also power the test.
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forest | 9 Sep 2005 16:57

soil carbinization as a means of acheiving fertile soil longterm

not too sure yet about all this, but it appears to have some good info worth
considering....aloha, f
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_http://www.bidstrup.com/carbon.htm_ (http://www.bidstrup.com/carbon.htm)

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Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm

How soil carbonization could save the planet while it saves the family farm
A personal essay in hypertext by Scott Bidstrup

It is not enough to try to browbeat business as well as the population into
giving up fossil fuels... Fossil fuels are simply far too convenient, cheap
and easy to use for their use to end anytime soon, no matter how repressive
government gets. If we are going to solve the problem of global warming, it
won't happen by denying the problem, as conservatives tend to do, or by
browbeating people into spending more money on less convenient alternative
energy sources, as liberals would seem to prefer. The only realistic
solution - what must be done - is to make the addition of carbon dioxide to
the atmosphere a non-problem.

see website above for details....

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E.Christopher Mare | 9 Sep 2005 18:03

Fwd: Design for Sustainable Community course

DESIGN
for SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

- where Permaculture meets 

Social Ecology 

Tues 20 – Sun 25 SEPTEMBER

Sahale, Olympic Peninsula, WA

TUTORS:  

Robina McCurdy

Tyrone LaFay

Huckleberry Leonard

This course offers a
wholistic approach to building sustainable human settlement, by
balancing and integrating social and economic design with
environmental and physical design. The course’s intention is to equip
participants with sufficient knowledge and skills to facilitate a
healthy community culture and create comprehensive permaculture
concept designs - with urban neighborhoods, co-housing clusters, rural
communities and ecovillages.

PARTICIPANTS
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