Brummet's Conscious Blog

Recommended Resources It's all about the environment today... with a twist - how new innovation and technology can help us create a more sustainable, healthier, cleaner world.  - Meet the "Row-bot," a robot that cleans up pollution and generates the electricity needed to power itself by swallowing dirty water: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_rossiter_a_robot_that_eats_pollution#t-161262 - Check out these two helpful articles on making your home safe for people of all age groups (*submitted by Marie Villeza): Home Construction & DesignTechniques for Child Safety How to Make Your Home Handicap Accessable - Learn about an interesting plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_trent_energy_from_floating_algae_pods#t-108635 ~~ Visit the Brummet's @:  http://BrummetMed...

Positive News  I'm sure you've read my articles or posts here on this blog re: biofuels, in the form of manure, compost, and others. Today I'd like to mention sewage... yup sewage. Before you turn green and close the window, let me assure you it is possible to get a great deal of energy out of plain old sewage in a safe and sanitary way.   There are many exeprimental programs in place around the world, such as a large biomass power generation project in Japan that focuses on using sludge from sewage plants - this one in particular is so new it doesn't actually open for operation until 2019. However, this plant does expect to generate just about 13 million cubic meters of methane gas annually (enough to power 5,000 homes).  There are other projects out there that use sludge in a slightly different way - they collect hydrogen from the methane gas and that helps in the production energy to fuel cell vehicles, forklifts and other such machines.  The "waste...

-- Quote of the Day --  “Rainforests are very unique in that they are very diverse – you may find in a mid-western forest a 15-20 tree species in a couple of acres, but in a rainforest you will find 4-500 distinct tree species. …Rainforests cover about 2% of the surface on the planet but they may have in those forests 50-60% of the species on the planet. They circle both sides of the equator. They are parallel to most of the corral reefs on the planet, so if you have a situation where the rainforests are being removed and loose the filtration they do, you may find that the corral reefs along the equator (which is where most of the species in the ocean come from the corral reefs) may start to disappear as well. …They are coupled together so if you lose one, you lose the other. …There are so many species yet undiscovered. …It is about overcoming and embracing the challenge – not to shy aw...

-- Quote of the Day --  “I was on an airplane once and one of the engines blew up – there were flames on one side of the plane, but the flames were put out and the pilot came back and said we lost one of the engines, the fire was put out and they are going back to land and do repairs. …The thing was that it was not a catastrophe – the pilot knew how to deal with that kind of stuff, because they had trained for it, even though it is a very rare thing for engines to blow up on planes these days. …People too need to test out and train for things in a safe environment before real lives and careers are on the line. …There are these other things that are constant presences in our lives trying to tell us what to do, what we have to do is to consciously choose which of those things we want to welcome in our lives and what we want to do with that. …When we learn from what other people have done – who we choose to look at makes a difference.” ~ Mark Chussil ...