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Your Breath Could Be Recycled into Fuel

Posted February 06, 2009 8:46 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

The Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in Liverpool, U.K., will soon become the world's first to try a revolutionary piece of technology that will recycle the breath of passengers into biofuel. The Eco-box, developed by Origo Industries, will capture the CO2 exhaled by airport travelers and convert it to fuel to be used in the airport's diesel vehicles and heating system.

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02/06/2009 1:51 PM

Just my breath?

Gosh, I thought I was more versatile than that.

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02/07/2009 4:59 AM

I want to know how much we will get paid for it...

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02/07/2009 9:05 AM

"BIG BREATHS!"

"Yeth and I am only 14!"

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02/07/2009 3:54 PM

The technology is flairly simple, and if one collects all the CO2 over his lifetime and converts it to ethanol for fuel via an algae process, he may wind up with enough fuel to power the vehicles in his funeral procession.
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Re: Your Breath Could Be Recycled into Fuel

02/09/2009 6:42 AM

Well, we can use technology in Washington DC. There is a lot of hot air flowing there.

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