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From CNET:

University of California, Davis wants to light the world with old melon rinds.
The university will show off an experimental facility next week that takes wilted lettuce, fish heads and other leftover food bits and turns it into biogas, a combination of natural gas and carbon dioxide. Separating the CO2 leaves commercial grade natural gas.
The technology, called an anaerobic phased solids digester, has been licensed from the university and adapted for commercial use by Onsite Power Systems. In the digester, microbes eat the garbage and give off valuable gases.

Researchers in Texas are also working on utilizing cow manure for energy sources.

Each ton of broccoli spears, cantaloupe rinds and fish bones should produce enough energy on average to power and heat 10 California homes.

Bring it on.

From Lifehacker:

Mapping software Google Earth now has 2 new layers available: a U.S. Election Guide and Congressional Districts layer.
Enable the new layers within Google Earth (free to download, Mac or Windows), and see 436 Congressional districts outlined on the map throughout the U. S. of A., plus election information with candidate names, parties and links to register to vote.

Click the link for more info.

From Frontburner:

Bryan Berg spent much of the State Fair of Texas creating an impressive replica of downtown Dallas out of playing cards. Then he used a leafblower to take it all down. There’s video here.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama looks like he may throw some competition in the ring against NY Sen. Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.
From the AP:

Illinois senator Barack Obama, one of the Democrats’ rising stars, said yesterday he was considering a 2008 presidential run, a move that would present Hillary Clinton with a formidable rival for the party’s nomination.
For months, the first-term senator had ruled out running for the White House, even while giving all appearances of interest in the race.
But he said yesterday he had reconsidered “given the responses that I have been getting over the last several months”.
Asked on NBC television’s Meet the Press program if it was fair to say he is thinking about running in 2008, he answered: “It’s fair, yes.”

I’d love to see Obama and J.C. Watts square off.

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