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useful product from waste such as human urine & banana peelings

03/14/2009 6:52 AM

Can any useful product be obtained from human urine?

Can any useful product be obtained from peelings of banana fruit

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03/14/2009 7:00 AM

Fertiliser/compost.

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03/14/2009 7:14 AM

Can any useful product be obtained from human urine? You can become a millionaire by bottling this to neutralize poison effects of jelly fish attacks on swimmers at sea beaches the world over.

Can any useful product be obtained from peelings of banana fruit.

when dried they can be briquetted as solid fuel for green-energy fuel burning at bar-b-ques and boilers.

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03/14/2009 11:18 AM

bottle it, an it turns into ammonia. fetilizer.

Its only good at nuetreulizing stings when its fresh and sterile. (right from the spicket)

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03/15/2009 9:44 PM

Urine is also the cleanser of choice in removing the dark brown stains from picking up pecans or black walnuts.

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03/14/2009 9:30 AM

My OT vote goes to Cat.

PS: The OP didn't want to wait for 499 posts to get the status .

Again: Why only human (why not cat ? ) Why only banana peeling ? What is the relationship ?

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser.

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03/14/2009 12:43 PM

These waste are any way used by nature in due course and come back to us in usable form, what we should be more worry about is so much of plastic garbage around us.

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03/14/2009 12:48 PM

bio-degradeable vs man made. . . . make oil back out of it.

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03/14/2009 1:48 PM

The banana peel can be used as a meat tenderizer.

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03/14/2009 6:50 PM

urine was traditionally used in natural dyeing, as a fixative for natural dyes. It also drives certain pigments towards their alkaline forms (generally from red to blue hues). Us more civilized types use household ammonia, never pee, in our dyebaths.

since I'm on the topic of dyes, I don't know what is in banana skins. They are astringent though, so there's something to em. Not much color to be gotten by my guess, but might contribute something as a mordant...

on the other, er, hand, if you put the banana skins in the compost and pee on em, you'll soon get a hot one going...

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03/14/2009 10:47 PM

Banana peels can be used in making moonshine. Or were you thinking of legal uses?

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03/15/2009 1:49 AM

In the 60s it was said that drying a banana peel, and then scrapping off and smoking the inside will give you a high. It was called Mellow Yellow. Whether it actually works or not I don't know since I don't do drugs. I get my kicks out of force-strangling people who annoy me, but who knows, you might want to give it a try.

And while you're at it, former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai always said that drinking his own urine first thing in the morning was responsible for his good health and long life. Maybe it might also counteract the downside of smoking Mellow Yellow.

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03/15/2009 9:01 AM

Early alchemists used the urine from young boys as a sterile medium for thier experiments.

Tell the Prime Minister to try cat piss. That should cure him of that habit.

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In any given thread, why are some messages hidden?

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03/15/2009 11:36 AM

Because jerks like me sometimes deliberate submit nonsensical, off-topic answers. The off-topic answers get hidden to prevent others who want to remain on topic from wasting their time reading such nonsense.

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03/15/2009 4:00 PM

ssooooo are you saying when we greet someone we should roll a bannana and pee on them. victim meet greeter

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03/15/2009 8:40 PM

Actually, what I'm really saying is that while the dopeheads are mellowing out on yellow, we place banana peels in strategic positions to slip them up. And then, when they go slip-sliding away, we pee into their mouths to sober them up......

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03/15/2009 1:54 AM

Yes...compost - nitrates derived from the urea of urine and chopped banana peels both provide materials for composting ...so if compost is considered as useful then both are useful.

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03/15/2009 4:50 AM

Urine is ninety two percent water

Banana peelings are biomass fuel

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03/15/2009 4:02 PM

Banana peelings are biomass fuel

so are beans, they're food and fuel.

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03/15/2009 8:48 PM

The best thing about beans is that they can provide fuel even after being eaten, as anybody who has ever pigged out on beer and Mexican food the night before can attest to in the morning. . Harvesting the resultant biogas might be a little problematic though.

Maybe the frat boys out there might be able to advise us all better on this.....

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03/15/2009 5:04 PM

I do not know where you are but i will like to share on information with you. In India we had a Priminister by name Mr. Morarji Desi ( I may have wrong spelling and do applogize for this). This guy for sure use to drink his morning urine and clain that this he is doing as medecine purpose. Do not know how right this is.

Fact is Urine is collection of discarded minirals from anionic to cationic in nature but dominates in basic side of it. If it is base then it is good for addition is in composite. and if dry urine then we will get mineral can this mineral be ore one has to determine.

I am sure urine of India in average will be different than urine in USA.and in England

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03/15/2009 8:33 PM

I was under the general impression that the best use of urine was related to its similarity to Urea, chemically, which was useful as a very low grade glue dependent on bonding out of pressure.

Of itself apparently drinking it as a substitute for beer, is recommended.

As far as a product from banana peelings, so far their main use has been witnessed in old silent motion pictures wherein people slipped on them, and fell down.

Certainly there is likely to be a more serious and beneficial use for them, if only as compost.

However the traditional use of them as a comic hazard, is not without complete merit.

The use that monkeys, chimps, and other primates put banana peels to as cleaning and lubricant personal products, has implications for new products from Proctor and Gamble that I encourage you to pursue.

However be aware Aloe is everywhere supreme in that market.

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03/15/2009 11:37 PM

Some say that consuming early morning first fresh self urine makes you healthier. (I am not practicing). But you may find more information by googling "Shivambu" and you may practice.

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03/16/2009 8:54 PM

PMSL It is funny enough to imagine certain politicians, um, drinking their own pee and liking it in secret, but to imagine a leader in this country actually admitting it to the press! different worlds, eh. Could we get your PM over for a cultural exchange? I just imagine the attack ads, come election time...

As for Transcendian, "a substitute for beer" ???!!! Maaan, if you are ready for pee substitution you have had waaaay too much beer!

Urea is basically toxic: kidneys are specially designed to handle it. Also, any other toxic stuff including chemicals and metals that your body has managed to get rid of are in the urine. Why on earth would it be good to drink?

I admit I have heard that the pee of amanita-intoxicated shamans is full of drugs and that fun-loving reindeers consider it a condiment. If you were in a state of emergency and took your last lifesaving meds, you might keep yourself alive with "Shivambu". If you were a woman on the pill, you could probably keep from getting pregnant. Then again, "pee breath" alone might be a great contraceptive..

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03/16/2009 8:16 AM

Heavens yes dude. In the ISS they get drinking water from it...

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03/16/2009 10:31 AM

You can get an oil from banana skin that is used as an adhesive for putting on the paper skin on model balsa wood airplanes. They call it dope.

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03/16/2009 1:16 PM

GURU: Best is to think in-line of producing something like vodka or tequila from it. I am sure you can beat warren buffet.

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03/17/2009 10:59 AM

In ancient Rome urine was collected and used to clean togas. Today, some pharmaceutical agencies collect human urine from portable restrooms to harvest proteins used for making drugs.

bannana peels are great compost for potted plants and gardens.

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03/18/2009 6:20 AM

yep,

Depends on the diet of the individual(s) you want to harvest urine from. Some Indian relegious society plans to unveil a soft drink from cow urine that will rival Coca-cola.

Ashes obtained when banana peel's when dried and burnt produce an alkaline when water is seeped through. This has for many years in traditional african practices been used in catalysing cooking of cereals and traditional african vegetables.

in short more can be done.

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