What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
$52 and Up—Airlines Slash Fares On Peak Holiday Flights. view!
travelzoo.com - This year, waiting until the last minute is NOT the best strategy. See why.
82 Comments
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36Funny, I eat Mexican food and excrete FIRE!
- jabab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Waste...chocolate...? Why does that exist? I would eat it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Buy stock in Hershey's NOW!
- EssPii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It is... it is called a "Chocolate Manufacturing Plant"
- SysErr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16My god, they have it so wrong... why can't it eat electricity and generate chocolate???
- nessup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14That's why they want to build a Chocolate New Orleans!
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -26/+38I'm blocking both of you, those have to be the two most idotic comments I've ever seen on digg. Grow up.
- tripm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12See, Dr. Emmett Brown was right!
- thegreatsam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Why would there even be a need for "extra" chocolate to go to a landfill? I understand that there might be scraps left over from the molding process, but can't they just be melted back down and used in more product? Am I missing something?
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I take it those bacterium are clinically obese by now? And excreting electricity? That must be painful.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Go to Cost Plus and find out what real chocolate is! You're still eating bargain basement!
No seriously, don't get offended....just go and try. You'll thank me! Try some Bahlsen, Ritter Sport, and the rest. - kbdrand, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Ok, this story has got to be totally bogus. I mean who would send Chocolate to a landfill??? It's crazy I tell you!!!!
- unangst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This headline doesn't even need a humorous comment...
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8obscure? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
- techie4life, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Few people realize that some forms of E.coli are found naturally in our stomachs & help digest food.....
- Leonaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, consider that not all chocolate is produced to the quality that chocolate factories look for, and do end up heading to a landfill. Yes, it takes a lot of energy to create chocolate, or any other sugar byproduct. But they're using that energy whether or not someone decides to make it standard to convert it to generator stored electricity. Saves you space in the landfill AND it puts otherwise useless waste to use.
Of course, we see hundreds, if not thousands, of new ways to generate energy and power each year, and none are put to use in public domain. The chances of THIS method making it to the streets is as good as any other experimental method: slim. - faithlessphil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've always suspected chocolate would save the world someday. I just didn't know how. Chocolate energy is the future!
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Is there nothing chocolate can't do?
- harpastum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"The team fed Escherichia coli bacteria diluted caramel and nougat waste."
That's E. Coli for those following along at home. What a cool use for a bacterium that is almost exclusively known for food poisoning. - bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5excretes hydrogen not electricity.
- apetrie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Inconceivable!
- lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4so now they are stuck in our matrix? how's that fair, poor bacterium
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sweet.
(Pun intended.) - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Now we can finally justify a Wonka power plant.... all we need now is lumpas...
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4they should just use a chocolate river for the purification process.
- Bloc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7University of Birmingham is located less than 30 minutes from Cadbury's chocolate factory. One of the original chocolate companies.
- poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity"
So does my two-year-old! - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing. If only the process was reversible.
- fiji5555, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10@Quackerfiend
again I say, digg users have the sense of humor of a cinderblock. I laughed, and that's worth more to me than some snotty ass opinionated comment.
I agree.....some people act like they are constipated in the humor department - raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I had an Indian curry a few nights ago - and I've been crapping lightening bolts ever since....
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why "Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity" ???
How about:
"Bacteria that converts Sugar to Hydrogen used to power fuel cells in Chocolate Factory" - aguita, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I believe you can thank the FDA and other silly rules for that. You'd be amazed at the amount of viable food that is just thrown out due to stupid rules.
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Disclaimer, My physics are a bit rusty and i'm translating my toughts from spanish:
But if I understand transfers of energy correctly, then the expected behaviour is to invest more energy than you are gaining in any of these transfers. However, the point is to be able to reuse energy that would otherwise be wasted in a more efficient way. For this case we have a case where; this chocolate was going to be thrown away, these bacteria were eating the chocolate and producing emmisions that would have been lost in the atmosphere and finally, some scientist figure out a way to take these emmisions and reuse them to produce energy that we could use instead of completely loosing it. - patcarling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not taking crap from no bacteria :)
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it a net gain in electricity before it's all said and done? is this a perpetual motion machine or just another hype for the H?
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote=XStatic]
How about:
"Bacteria that converts Sugar to Hydrogen used to power fuel cells in Chocolate Factory"
[/quote]
That's the mother of the long and redundant titles - linkerjpatrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think society would be better served if the masses were given the chocolate to eat as opposed to the bacteria.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2**And as soon as the chocolate eatting parasites were made public, it was reported that Count Chocula went in to deep hidding. All his spokesman would say is "at this time the count feels that his safety is in jepordy if these things get out and has take actions incase that scenereo plays out. He does plan at some point in time, making a statement himself. Thank you."***
- ingenium21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Psynyde, you're one of those morons that thinks creationism is a real science aren't you?
this could the beginning of actual great biochemical advances in hydrogen transfer. All that ***** you saw in back to the future part II, where the Doc was powering his car off of trash could become possible now that we have discovered this. Why? Because all biomatter is made up of sugars. Cellulose-,C6H10O5, Glucose, C6H1206, and what does that have to do with these E. coli? Well if they crave sugars, with certain types of mutagenesis (site directed, multi-site directed, site specific) they can be made to crave different and multiple types of sugars, as well as even produce more electricity. This is very very good research. - zaren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3As long as they're using that crappy bargain-basement Palmer's chocolate, I'm cool with this.
But if them bugs come after my Hershey's, or my Cadbury, or my Dove... there's gonna be some hurtin' goin' on. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2great reason to take over the equator.. as within 15 degrees is where chocolate grows.
But it would be a hard fight between me and the car for my chocolate.. and i really wouldnt like to see chocolate prices rise..
Now if they could make fuel from white chocolate i am all in, that stuff is gross. - itsmekirby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe the title was a simplification. The blurb still had the facts. I dugg it.
- scruffmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Ah now if we could only extract that gene that makes you do that...
- kaviare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, Psynyde does have a point. Did you also see the article a little further on about how Americans rely on foriegn scientists for their brain power? I heard an American scientist interviewed the other day, and he was saying that something like 40% of Americans not only don't know where milk comes from, they don't know where MEAT comes from. And if you tell them, they feel disgusted. I, personally, would love to have a chocolate plant, but it just aint gonna happen. Unless people realise how much effort, energy and resources go into the products they consume, how can we expect not to have a detrimental effect on the environment?
However, I'm all for the chocolate jokes... - slipsec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And while we are at it, let's build a gigantic global-cooling machine that runs on fossil fuels and gives off CFCs.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why don't we just make a replicator?
- dmsteg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could have saved these scientist guys a lot of time and resources.
Just give my 2 and a half year old daughter some chocolate or any other sugar based food substance and put her on a stationary tricycle hooked up to a generator and you'll do more than power a small, fan I'll tell ya that much. - RetroRufio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe it has to do with the refining of chocolate, the "extra" is what is leftover after the chocolate has been purified.
- JMartin13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats the second funniest thing I've read today. The first was a song about the internet not being free.
- sock2828, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool pretty soon i will be able to shove a chocolate in my laptop when i need a battery charge
-
Show 51 - 82 of 82 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is