http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
I really dont mind it, especially if it is hidden within other tastes.. ya know. like an additive ]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
It certainly is the future. BTW ancient cultures in Central and South Americas cultivated Arthrospira (aka Spirulina supplement) and this algae is now the most cultivated for food use worldwide. This supplement is practically all one needs to live. It was used as a garnish, but can sustain a person. It's silly to have people hunger when this stuff is so easily made.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Soylent Green ?]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/we are all going to laugh one day when we look back at this era of gas, coal and oil powered everything. There will be pictures in history books of the smog in inner cities to the black smoke coming out of semi-trucks and boats.
soon power will be harvested out of anything. I wish i could be alive to see it go down.]]>Apr 15th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
ya right. if this became a major energy source global warming idiots would be freaking out from it producing "too much oxygen" which would then be labeled as a pollutant by the EPA like co2 just was. morons!]]>Apr 15th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/don't just go green- go algal green!]]>Apr 15th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 16th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
wow i knew about algae been used for electricity for nearly a 2 years now that it had the potential nothing new engadget ]]>Apr 16th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Maybe the battery looks like a lantern and uses ring-sized adapters...]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
YOU WIN THIS TIME, SCIENCE.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Harvestin' ur algaez]]>Apr 15th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Harvestin' ur....algaez?]]>Apr 16th 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
No, Nitesh's algaez!]]>Apr 16th 2010 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
No, Nitesh's algaez!]]>Apr 16th 2010 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Not as hungry as my ride, I assure you.]]>Apr 15th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
But can it make... bacon?

Cause I'm always makin' bacon...]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Can you finish making bacon or dose it take Duke Nukem Forever to make it?]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
*runs away* Lucius!!! ]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Hmm, don't have time to play with myself.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
+1]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Glad you're enjoying my pinball machine game.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
My thoughts exactly

"The team designed a gold electrode that can be pushed through a cell membrane.... The cell, still alive... at which point scientists harvest chemical energy in the form of electrons."

Yikes]]>Apr 15th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
We are a long way from sticking the power cord from your Chevy Volt into your algae pool and charging it overnight, then drinking some of the algae for nutritious breakfast in the morning.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
This tech really is the shit if they do ever make it feasible. I'm a horticulturist and when I was in college a few years ago, this was always something that people in our department talked about--its always been a biotech's dream to harness the power of photosynthesis since plants have been making electricity extremely efficiently for a long long time now. Although based on what I learned in grad school, it was my understanding that the biggest thing blocking using plant cells to generate electricity was the fact that people couldn't fully explain all the nitty gritty details of what a plant does chemically during photosynthesis.

On another note regarding expenses, don't voice your concerns too loud or else all the people that voiced their adamant support for the wave electricity generators regardless of the expense will start chiming in saying that we need to use new green tech no matter what the cost is or how much debt it puts us in.]]>Apr 15th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/
Dude, I think you're an illusion the way you're talking. Besides we're talking about people who say that CO2 is a pollutant. Life wouldn't exist without CO2. Besides, everyone knows that there are more things in this world that we can do to improve everyone's health while spending less money and actually saving more lives. But that's just my 2 cents.]]>Apr 15th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Who knows, maybe the algae then makes more energy to sustain it. If so, then when the limit is found, you have a very long source of energy without hassle.]]>Apr 15th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/stanford-researchers-harvest-electricity-from-algae-unkempt-poo/Apr 15th 2010 1:52PM