Recent content by kithwrike

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    Some kind of nitrogen from chicken manure?

    I guess this was kind of vague, but what I was hoping for was something like "get the urea something like this, and then from that you can get ammonia/ammonium sulfate/ammonium nitrate" Just trying to figure out what I can use for science.
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    Some kind of nitrogen from chicken manure?

    I think a lot about the collapse of the economic systems we are used to having. It's not like I'm going to stop living to prepare for that. Anyway when there's no FAA then Amazon and Google, etc, can get serious about drones. But I've sort of been wondering about chemistry with plants and...
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    Can I Design a Non-Chemical Battery or Firestarter Using Basic Components?

    So, yeah, I'm supposed to post something like this. Design is a mental activity I do a lot of--even if I'm pretty confident that I am never going to even try to execute a design. And I mean, by design I'm talking about anything possible that can conceived of as a set of choices. I believe the...
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    Scrapped electrical motor -> generator

    Something like this was on this site, but I'm still not sure if this is possible. I have this concept of taking old appliances, disassembling them, and recombining components in useful ways. I'm wondering if I can use the electric motors, in, eg, washing machines as electrical generators if I...