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more about #alternativeenergy more comments → Bigdamnhero: After reading this post, and a little reflection, I've decided how I want to go out: I want somebody to figure out how to hook up a battery charger t... more » Strakus: This is just energy recovery- it's like getting a cogenerating furnace to save power and gas. Seems like a perfectly sensible thing to do to me- surpr... more » Jeriba: I'd like to see cremation fall out of style altogether, along with massive air-tight caskets made of tropical hardwood. A friend of mine, an organic ... more » SpammerOvTheGods: i guess i'm the only one who doesn't have a problem with this, then? #@! more » The Curse of Millhaven: Nobody would ever mind the stench of human flesh being piped along their baseboards for heat. more » salthegeek: Ok, this is a horror movie plot .... more » Pittsburghmuggle: SOYLENT POWER IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!! more » tnmnsquare: This will sound like crazy talk but I think this kind of extreme energy conservation is the ONLY way mankind will ever get out of the solar system. Fr... more » Gann: This is slightly less disturbing that Resomation: [www.resomation.com] A process where they use heat, pressure, and lye to render your corpse into l... more » whormongr: you aren't really getting energy you are capturing some that is spent- it takes more heat and power to burn the body than you are going to get back t... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Wait a sec... so there really is a lot of power in the Energizer bunny? more » Anekanta - Go Play!: We should reclaim the water while we're at it; then we can use it to top up our stilsuits. more » LittleDragon: Does any one know what happened to CH's character after he screamed about it being people? Or is it just assumed that the state "dealt" with him? more » cylon_conspiracy: Looks like our future health care policy is going to help our future environmental policy. more » Necrotoxin: So Hitler was just trying to help the Germans with their energy problems. more » -
#alternativeenergy
Crematorium Plans to Use Burning Bodies to Generate Energy
While the city of Stockholm is burning bunnies to power its homes, the human cremation process could soon provide an alternative energy of its own. A UK crematorium is looking into a new technology to recapture energy from human cremation. More » -
#io9giftguide
15 Toys That Will Help You Survive The Holidays
The Holiday Season is officially on us again, and that can mean only one thing that isn't watching Christmas In Connecticut over and over again: Time to think about gift-giving (and getting). Where better to start than with toys? More » -
#alternativeenergy
Sweden's Homes Heated with the Power of Bunny Blood
We've seen lamps that run on human blood and examined robots that eat corpses for fuel. Sweden is already using flesh-based biofuel, but it's not humans they're using to heat their homes; it's rabbits. More » -
#fakesolartrees
Fake Trees Charge Your Car While You Park
Purely electric cars may be green, but it's tough to find a parking place close enough to an electrical outlet. But one designer has come up with the perfect solution: solar-powered sculptures that charge your car while you park. More » -
#alternativeenergy
Solve the Energy Crisis with Comics
According to a 2006 report from MIT, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are one of the most unfairly overlooked form of alternative energy in the United States. They're far cheaper than clean coal, indigenous, highly sustainable, and produce just about zero carbon dioxide; in fact, EGS have virtually no emissions. For the laypeople who can't yet grasp the promise of this new technology — especially those who might happen to have a few hundred million dollars up their sleeves for funding science projects — Molika Ashford of Popular Science explains it all with a piece of visual journalism. More » -
#megaturbines
Energy Ball Turns Your Roof into a Wind Turbine Farm
When peak oil means you're paying more to power up your computers than you are for rent, it's time for Energy Ball. Developed recently by Swedish company Home Energy, these cool-looking devices are designed to work in low winds and make very little noise. That makes them perfect for home use, as well as in giant wind turbine farms. But how do they work with that weird spherical shape? More » -
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#nukepower
The Future Is Coming Up Nukes
Nuclear power is the other alternative energy - cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol. Sure there's that pesky problem of nuclear waste, but that's not stopping a union of European, Asian, and United States task forces from working on the next generation of nuclear power plants, that will look something like this on the inside (this is a Trigia research nuke power reactor, designed by Freeman Dyson). And here's the cool part. Many new, generation IV nuclear reactors will be virtually waste-free. Want to see some of the prototype generation IV nuke power plants? More »
