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Human waste might someday turn human urine or waste into useful electricity for radios or space robots
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Add CommentLike Back to the Future - garbage in, power out.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYeah, though maybe we'd be as well off to consider making biological material into edible food and using the 'robots' we have (aka humans). After all the going rate for a human seems to be 2-3 bucks a day, pretty cheap to maintain! hehe.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe matrix is coming to pass. Robots will feed on us to sustain themselves!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat's gross come up with something better!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWill the future smell like China?
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Sounds like the evolutionary origins of the antagonists in Greg Benfords Galactic Center series. Machines that feed on biologicals - if they bother to take notice of us at all. All you need is self replication, Artificial Intelligence (or self awareness), and the ability to harvest fuel from the environment to converty into power (or to harvest the power directly).
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