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Powering Iraq bases with trash—Back to the Future Style

— Posted under Blog, Culture, Public Administration on June 20, 2008

Remember in Back to the Future II, when Doc came back from the future in the Delorean?  Remember how he powered up that flux capacitor without using plutonium, instead using some trash (a banana peel, some beer and the beer can)? 

Well, it looks like the U.S. Army has figured out a similar way to power generators at Baghdad bases.  That’s right, they’re using “prototype generators — running on food slop, shredded documents and ammunition wrappers…”

The unit’s are called Tactical biorefineries and they sound pretty cool in a crazy Doc scientist kinda way.

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