I was pondering a way to help our environment and the energy problems and I had a brainwave(?!!) it was: As well all know beans can cause flatulence which causes gas to be passed. From many scientific experiments we have learned that gas is flammable. Why does the government not spend some of that money, our tax dollars which they generously give to other important causes, on a new laboratory where they could feed humans or animals large meals consisting of beans then harvest the gas and process it into energy?? Your learned opinions are welcome.
Photo: Beans.
[question posted by whiteheather39]responses and comments:
This is great! It is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. Keep up the good humour. Good luck [susaneverson]
Do you want to live your life with a hose up your...butt...all day long? [sparky3489]
LOL This sounds like one of those postings that DoubleB66 would take and really spin off on. (Do you miss him as much as I do?) [irisheyes]
I also left him a message. I read on another thread that he had to have brain surgury but I haven't heard anything since. I think I'll leave another message and see what happens. He was the heart and soul of this place and I sure would like to know he's okay and coming back....I only live a few miles away and could easily check on him if I had his name but all I know him by is his Mylotian screen name. [irisheyes]
Exactly how do you recommend that the gass is collected, how about using commodes in call centres (I hate call centres), and just sucking up the gas while the staff are producing all that hot air!! Gas produced by cows is methane which is 20 times more harmful to the environment than CO2, and if it could be collected can be used for producing energy as CH4 + O2 (methane burning in oxygen) give CO2 + H2O (carbon Dioxide and Water). Incidentally CO2 is only a greenhouse gas in a greenhouse, and is much misalligned. (methane is a greenhouse gas as it is lighter than air). CO2 is heavier than air so cannot be a greenhouse gas and is easily converted to O2 by plants, or dissolves in the ocean to be absorbed by plankton. [Eskimo]
Wow! You know your stuff! or should I say you seem familiar with gas!!LOL [whiteheather39]
I don't know how you come up with them, but this is really funny...lol. The government could all donate their time to the experiments and they wouldn't have to be fed any beans. They are already full of gas...lol. [Alexandria37]
You are so right then I would be even cheaper to produce. [whiteheather39]
Whitehaether I am so pleased that someone else has finally realised the full potential of using human wind as an energy source! Given the right fuel (which is most food!) my partner, daughter and best friend could probably create enough power to provide half of Scotland! Needed that lift just now honey! [mummymo]
who would that be honey??? [mummymo]
years ago in a cafe I read a sign save gas eat more beans lol also ya can make fuel out of corn as they have done it dont know why they stopped [Lakota12]
you have the best ideas and i think this one is great and you make a good point dont see why they cant keep them coming. [kebpete]
Makes sense to me, but I am afraid that someone will tell me that our alternate energy source makes methane gas, and that is a contributer to the greenhouse effect, and we will need to use more air fresheners, with propellant. Same problem. I guess if the terrorists wanted to stop our bean energy, they would have to put Beano in our water supply, lol. My hubby says I am wrong about the methane it is something else. Maybe it is sulphur dioxide [GardenGerty]
Well! if they let me make my home made soup My hubby could fuel quite a few housing estates lol especially my green split pea xx [weemam]
Yeah I know all about that I am on meatless diet so i eat tons. [liperoterachel]
LOL that is a very nice idea I must say but don't you think harvesting that gas would be a very unpleasant job..lol That gas maybe flammable but maybe it doesn't have enough to actually provide energy...maybe..just a thought ;o) But again if it does then you really should send in your idea to the White House:) [greengal]
George would love it! [whiteheather39]
Well Heather I would say that I would like to have that job lol I don't think that would work though surely it is different Gas And it smells lol but not like the Gas they use for Cookers and that [gabs8513]
i saw a news program once where they had a iowa farmer had this potatoe and cow poop mixture that made some type of fuel to use in vehicles, but the government wouldn't back him with funds to get it going. how great would that be? i think we have alot of cow poop and potatoes! another opporturnity foiled by our oil companies im sure. [lpetges]
I think that idea is already being pursued but not with beans but that of dumps. The dumps emit large volumes of methane gas which is collected and processed.I do not know if this took of as it was only in a trial situation. I think there may also have been a trial involving cows but i have not heard anymore on that one either. [spasticseagull]
Oh, I don't know about this. I can't stand the smell of peoples exhaust as it is. Can you imagine the "smell pollution" from all that gas..lol I want to know how we will collect it...and who will collect it. I think maybe instead of a brainwave you may have had a 'brain fart' ...lol just kidding..hehehe I don't think it would work but it is creative..lol [mari61960]
Whats wrong with you! all my friends would rather smell a fat boys fart than a pretty girls perfume. You really must refine your finger pulling skills. [roztredtoes]
I cannot believe I just read this.....lol.... After all these years of suffering and all the misery I have caused people around me after eating beans, to think that all that effort and energy could have bean put to good use..... Another wasted resource.... lol...lol...lol...lol [wildguy2]
Our government already does have a special set up to do just that. Its called welfare for illegal aliens where as they give them food stamps to buy bean burritos so they can speed up global warming and save us money on our heating bills. [roztredtoes]
love your joke. it's very smart. thanks. [peddhie]
tie up a goat in the yard,,,,,or a cow,,,,,cowpies ta burn in the furnace,,,,,stickit to excelon .....that'l get their goat.................. [snaglpus]
oh!!!!!!!!!!!really..It might be successful but now it sounds very funny.i hope it will be the alternate way to produce energy in less expenditure.Good Luck [ramkrushnatunga2006]
Wow, you got a novel idea. Feeding animals with beans and collect the gas they produce as a possible way of get endless energy. Maybe scientists are already investigating the possibility of producing such an environmental friendly energy products. I think the animals can divided into groups and work on shift. After producing gas one day, one of the groups may rest by eating something else and enjoy their leisure by roaming on a grassland. Then another group take its place and start feeding on beans and produce the gas instead. Then they shifting work keep going on in endless cycles. If this works, the problems of shortage of oil many no longer be troubling us. [smkwan2007]
Excellent thinking. Send the Pres. your resume you can be plant manager. [whiteheather39]
I think it needs a lot of research. [AAYAAM]
Beans??!! Okay lol I gotta admit while the idea is novel and funny, it's not feasible. Growing that huge amount of beans to power say, China, would take the whole of Australia (just hypothetically). We're already growing corn and developing palm oil as biofuel. So, developing beans as an alternative source of renewable energy takes up a whole lot more resources that could be committed to further the research being done on commercially viable fuels. Besides, I think that to produce enough gas to burn in order to generate electricity, the amount of beans needed would be staggering. Growing that much beans would potentially harm the environment. Although it reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, the large-scale farming would eventually make the area infertile and not fit for agriculture in the future. Just my thoughts. =) [aissar]
bean??..sound like Mr.Bean...nyaaaahhhh...sound funny.. [Zerel86]
It is funny that you suddenly have this thought.It is a kind of funny joke to me.I mean nothing to not appreciate this creative thought,you are thinking at least,but don't you think that it is impossible to put it into practice? [killerinthewind]
I was gonna avoid the fart joke ;) However, it IS methane gas, real methane gas, the same as from the gas company. I saw a friend of mine light it once even to verify that in an interesting well thought out experiment. He was careful to note everything in the lab book, using the scientific method etc. Anyway, maybe cows could be used instead. Colect it from the building, prevent greenhouse gasses AND have some methane for free maybe. [kurtbiewald]
As far as I know cattle already produce huge amounts of gas. But why not trying feeding them more gas produciung food... beans... if this is suitable for the cows digestion. I have a feeling scientists have already tried to harness the gas cattle produce, but I guess further research in this area would be beneficial. [jennybianca]
Interesting idea. They already know how to use pig poop fumes to make fuel. Bet if we added beans to the piggies diets we'd get more output LOL [maildumpster]