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To: chaz who wrote (18443)	2/23/2000 12:02:00 PM
From: Curbstone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

The mind is starting to reel now! Diapers! The untapped fuel-cell potential! Put a USB port on the Diaper Genie and suddenly the baby is powering my laptop! Instead of tradional child growth metrics the future will be measured in Kilowatt Hours. "What? Your little rugrat is only producing 16 KWH???? Why, my little "3-Mile" Clyde has been pumping out 25 KWH since day one." With a little substation like Aloha Clyde folks will actually pay me to babysit! AM

To: chaz who wrote (18443)	2/24/2000 12:35:00 PM
From: BDR	Respond to of 54805

<<Just put a re-charger on the back of a cow (or the family dog) and you have power for life. I'm going to take this idea to to guy who runs the horse carriage tours in my town. They could even tap into the diaper the horses already wear! >> I know this is off topic but I didn't start this.(g) Perhaps this will be the final word on the subject. Elephant Dung Made Into Electricity February 24, 2000 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - Thai researchers say they have succeeded in generating electricity from natural gas derived from elephant dung. A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Science's Bureau of Energy Development and Promotion said Wednesday that a project begun in August last year has been developing ways of using elephant excrement as a low-cost and environmental friendly source of energy. The researchers found that when the excrement is fermented, it can produce natural gas suitable for use as cooking gas or feedstock for am electric generator. An elephant produces 88 to 110 pounds of excrement a day _ enough to produce cooking gas for a family of two or three, according to the ministry. But the cost is not cheap. The minimum price of construction of a fermentation pit, pipeline and storage tank is around $800 and a generator that could use the gas costs around $2,667. The ministry plans to release a report in the next two or three months promoting use of the project's method nationwide, especially in the North and the Northeast where most of the country's domesticated elephants are found and the problem of how to dispose of the elephants' waste is most acute.