Cheap motor insurer left with chocolate around their mouths.
It never starts to amaze cheap motor insurers at just what can be achieved in a science lab. Science was generally portrayed as pretty damn important when cheap motor insurers were at school. By this unimpressed cheap motor insurer anyhow. Biology aside, and human anatomy at that. Fascinating stuff. The other disciplines though the cheap motor insurer successfully avoided, by doing so side-stepping a gaggle of learned types with more NHS manufactured opticals than even the school chess club could muster. Of course, in recent years the subject has suddenly become cool. And quite mad. Madder than a plateful of Mr. Kipling's finest confectionary treats, as boffins have mixed the hormones of something agricultural of descent, with something clearly not, so as to lean back and marvel at a half-goat, half fish, that's going to shape the future of prosthetics so we're told. Brilliant.
Anyhow, Birmingham Uni are the latest hotbed of learning/research to have gone and discovered something quite amazing by chance. This time it's a way to generate power by harnessing the waste manufactured by a chocolate factory. Straight up. A microbiolologist, something I can't even spell properly, has stumbled on a way to keep your car chugging along simply by feeding it Cadburys Crème Eggs. Which personally I think should be nominated for some sort of Nobel Prize, or Louis Pastor head tipping certification, beating the invention of penicillin into a cocked hat. Lynne Mackaskie and her chums at the Uni fed Escherichia Coli bacteria a diluted chocolate waste, (5 litres of surplus nougat and caramel as it happens) as you do, and then pulled up a few stools and put their safety goggles on. And would you believe it? On lapping up the decidedly sugary mixture, the bacteria produced hydrogen; which as any fool can tell you (other than me) are produced by enzyme hydrogenase and organic acids. Courtesy of people who really need longer fringes than they have. Now this probably means jack to you, and moreover, a case of so what? They've got enough power to wake up a fuel cell, which in turn can muster enough activity via its electrical impulses to drive a small fan. But no heathens. The fun doesn't stop there.
You see, the excess candy bi-product, if cast aside, will end up in a landfill site once it falls off the end of the chocolaty conveyor belt, so, they're thinking to apply this process on a grander scale, which in laymans terms will be somewhat akin to the basis of the idea of bio-diesel fuel, and so answer the question involving our rapidly diminishing fossil fuel dilemma. I think. Listen, they're the experts; I'm just a writer, and a poor one at that. So what are we waiting for? Forecourt pumping apparatus chocker with chocy will mean one thing, and one thing alone. A fuel crisis. Never-ending queues, and a spate of tanker drivers being kidnapped along with their rigs en route from chocolate refineries. Utter madness, yet as good as tales get hereabouts. Well it sure beats hearing about cheap motor insurance this, and cheap motor insurance that does it not? But if this still floats your boat, Insureyourmotor.co.uk is your ship's captain for today's cheap motor insuring cruise.
Date - 21/09/2006
