{"id":2470,"date":"2010-09-16T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2010-09-14T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:13:28","slug":"the-lighter-side-of-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/the-lighter-side-of-poop.html","title":{"rendered":"The lighter side of poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being #2, you try harder.\u00a0 So the folks doing poop research were not about to sit idly by while other researchers made <a href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/08\/excuse-me-while-i-pee-in-my-phone.html\">electricity from pee<\/a>.\u00a0 Hence, the <a href=\"http:\/\/parksparkproject.com\/home.html\">Park Spark project<\/a> which is turning poop into light.\u00a0 Ahhhh, the glamor of science.<\/p>\n<p>The initial implementation is a street light in a dog park.\u00a0 The project encourages you to contribute your dog droppings to the natural composter, which then siphons off the methane gas to fuel the light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parksparkproject.com\/home.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Park Spark\" src=\"http:\/\/opp-m.com\/r1284424427\/9\/1\/0\/17910\/splash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this is only the prototype.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s noting special about dog poop beyond the fact that dogs have figured out how to train humans to clean it up for them.\u00a0 Recycling being as popular as it is, it won&#8217;t be long before there are poop powered lights throughout your neighborhood.\u00a0 I suppose eventually there could be a direct sewer feed, but early adopters will likely have to settle for curb-side donations.<\/p>\n<p>I can see it now.\u00a0 Grab the newspaper and tuck it proudly under your arm as you announce to the family, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back in a bit&#8230; I gotta top off the street lamp.&#8221;\u00a0 Make no mistake, this <em>movement <\/em>will say way more about you than a Prius parked in the driveway ever could.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be the talk of the cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being #2, you try harder.\u00a0 So the folks doing poop research were not about to sit idly by while other<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/the-lighter-side-of-poop.html\" title=\"Read The lighter side of poop\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun","category-madscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}