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Old 08-30-2004, 02:55 PM
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Default Now Here's a Wild Idea for the DR to Ponder...

bananas as a source of power generation!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3604666.stm
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Old 08-30-2004, 03:27 PM
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Default You Got Me To Thinking ! Always a dangerous thing! But,.....

We can solve three Dominican "problems"at the same time!!! Stray Dogs,garbage,and electric power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First,round up all the stray dogs in the country.Put them in huge collection pens.Next,collect all the "Wet" garbage from the streets.Feed it to the dogs.
Collect all the urune and feces from the dogs.The fecal matter can be used to generate methane to power electric generators,and the urine used as fertilizer!(A fourth bebefit!)
If you market this idea,I demand my share of the royalties!! Cris Colon
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Old 08-30-2004, 04:18 PM
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Default Lol

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Originally Posted by Criss Colon
We can solve three Dominican "problems"at the same time!!! Stray Dogs,garbage,and electric power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First,round up all the stray dogs in the country.Put them in huge collection pens.Next,collect all the "Wet" garbage from the streets.Feed it to the dogs.
Collect all the urune and feces from the dogs.The fecal matter can be used to generate methane to power electric generators,and the urine used as fertilizer!(A fourth bebefit!)
If you market this idea,I demand my share of the royalties!! Cris Colon
Good One, Patent that idea quick before they take it. Sounds like a cool idea.
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Old 08-31-2004, 01:58 PM
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You all laugh about this concept, but it has been used successfully to create fuel for cooking in parts of Africa for a couple of decades.
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Old 08-31-2004, 02:05 PM
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You all laugh about this concept, but it has been used successfully to create fuel for cooking in parts of Africa for a couple of decades.
Cya, I'm not laughing at it at all. I posted the banana waste-to-energy story as food for thought. There is a ton of innovative, outside-the-box thinking going on in the environmental field, including alternative energy sources. What I'm trying to do in this forum is to expose DR1ers to it, and get them to regularly ask "why not in the DR? Why not try it? Why not innovate when the country is so vulnerable to imported oil prices and the power grid is habitually dysfunctional?" etc etc.

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Keith R
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Old 08-31-2004, 02:12 PM
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Cya, I'm not laughing at it at all. I posted the banana waste-to-energy story as food for thought. There is a ton of innovative, outside-the-box thinking going on in the environmental field, including alternative energy sources. What I'm trying to do in this forum is to expose DR1ers to it, and get them to regularly ask "why not in the DR? Why not try it? Why not innovate when the country is so vulnerable to imported oil prices and the power grid is habitually dysfunctional?" etc etc.

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Keith R
Keith, I never thought you were laughing at it, I was referring to the comments responding to your post.
Joe
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Old 08-31-2004, 05:58 PM
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Texas Bill Level 2 (59)
Default Hey DEBEBE!!!

Read the reference! It could be a real good source of energy for the farm???
Please don't shoot me!!

Texas Bill
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Old 08-31-2004, 06:01 PM
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Default OK Criss---

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Originally Posted by Criss Colon
We can solve three Dominican "problems"at the same time!!! Stray Dogs,garbage,and electric power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First,round up all the stray dogs in the country.Put them in huge collection pens.Next,collect all the "Wet" garbage from the streets.Feed it to the dogs.
Collect all the urune and feces from the dogs.The fecal matter can be used to generate methane to power electric generators,and the urine used as fertilizer!(A fourth bebefit!)
If you market this idea,I demand my share of the royalties!! Cris Colon
How you gonna' seperate the 'wheat' from the 'chaff'?? HUH??

Good idea, but you have a problem in implimentation.

Texas Bill
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