Dog Park Lit by Dog Poop

[rucky]

A methane digester called "Park Spark" has been installed in a dog park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The device produces methane by bacterial digestion of the dog excrement, and the methane is used to light a gas-burning street lamp.

People walking their dogs are encouraged to collect the feces, place them into the supplied biodegradable doggie bags and drop them into the digester feeding tube. They then turn a hand crank to stir the mixture of excrement and anaerobic bacteria in the Spark Park digester and help the methane rise to the top where it is burned constantly in the lamp, like an “eternal flame”.

http://www.physorg.com/news203575072.html

[Skittles]

1. friggin' awesome!

[JuniperLea]

2. The flux capacitor

I knew we'd see one eventually!


Or is this the precursor to the pit of pig poo in the Mad Max movie?

[3waygeek]

7. "pit of pig poo in the Mad Max movie?"

You mean this one?

[Sal Minella]

11. Hey, be careful.

You may be talking about a future Supreme Court "Justice."

I mean, Mel is (a) Catholic and (b) nuttier than Aunt Esther's fudge, so he would be a prime SCOTUS candidate if a Republican gets elected to the Oval Office.

And if he's not already Opus Dei, I'm sure Tony and Clarence and John and Sam will sponsor him right in.

[TheBigotBasher]

16. Lol

[JuniperLea]

25. EW!

He is really disgusting. I take back all my Mad Max crush... ew... I nearly puked just typing that admission.

[Chulanowa]

27. I have to wonder... Exactly at what point did he lose his mind?

He's looked slap-fucking insane since at least Braveheart. I'm curious as to the exact moment that he became the Australian Marshall Applewhite.

[Wednesdays]

33. So, they're showing us some fuel for the contraption?

:spray:

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. awesome

[kentuck]

4. What a brilliant idea!

Amazing!

[undeterred]

5. ok, I imagined the dogs were being fed something that glows

in the dark...

[rucky]

6. That would be helpful, too.

No more surprises during the nighttime stroll.

[woo me with science]

10. It would be a more romantic effect, too.

Little softly glowing piles dot the landscape.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

28. HAAAAA!

:rofl:

I like how you think!

[femrap]

8. How very cool. nt

[surrealAmerican]

9. I could see this idea catching on in urban dog parks everywhere.

You might as well use the stuff, if you have to collect it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. It's not always that I K&R a shitty thread.

[blondeatlast]

15. LOL! nt

[madokie]

20. But you just couldn't pass this one up,

right?

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Do they make a version for home use?

:evilgrin:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

32. That would be cool...

[Rhiannon12866]

36. And I think it would certainly sell...

:D

[Brickbat]

14. That. Is awesome.

[mindwalker_i]

17. That's the shit!

I have long hated dog shit, especially since people let their dogs crap all over the lawn where I once lived. Nice to see it have a positive effect.

[roody]

18. so cool

[lonestarnot]

19. Woohoo! I want one!

[applegrove]

21. Cool!

[jgraz]

22. Obligatory comment about how many lights we could hook up to Sean Hannity

Feel free to substitute the reactionary cretin of your choice...

[blondeatlast]

26. Beck takes up less physical space. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. But Limbaugh...now, he could light up a whole city!!!!!

[Swamp Rat]

23. Oh man, that is really far out!!!

:thumbsup:

[FredStembottom]

24. Effluence Digester!

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. Cool!!

Does it put out an odor?

:hide:

[Blue Owl]

30. Can we hook this up to the GOP cesspool?

And make something useful out of it?

[Wednesdays]

34. I was gonna say...hook it up to Fox News

and you'd be able to light up all of Manhattan. :rofl:

[Blue Owl]

35. Works for me!

then again Manhattan isn't deserving of such shitty lighting -- let's make it Texas!