Chocolate by-product produces sweet, green energy

Probably make the coal plant smell nice.

33 parts coal...how is this making energy differently? You could add 1 part dirt to 33 parts coal and still produce energy.

Once we all realize that burning coal kills us quicker than cigarettes and stop using it to produce electricity, we can add one part coal to 33 parts chocolate to make coal-infused chocolate bars.

Is this really cocoa bean to energy? If the 33 parts coal is doing all the work, this isn't a much cleaner source at all. Perhaps I'm missing something in the science.

Unfortunately, fuels that don't require 33 parts fossil fuel.

Small steps people. Everyone on here wants industry to phase out "dirty" coal plants and realize "green" technology as if it were a seamless transition. How about celebrating some innovation here in New England!

I recently visited the Green Mountain Coffee visitor's center in Vermont and spotted an exhibit that showed how they do something similar with the outer shell from the coffee beans. Glad the idea is catching on.

more ideas? how about poo - the world is full of it and it's burnable, once dried. cow poo. pig poo. human poo. the list goes on.

Probably the fastest way to cut emissions and power use is to really start thinking downscaling: compact neighborhoods with essential services near by in walking disfance, decentralized power and food production (think wind turbines, solar, geothermal, co-generation on a neighborhood scale, urban garden/agriculture programs to bring food right into the city-- GET RID of MONSANTO!), and rethinking urban design for integrated neighborhoods. We all want to have our cake and eat it: technologizing our way out of a problem, like the Prius and other cars-- fine for fuel, but car use increases demand and does nothing for UN-planning some of our mistakes.

How exactly is this "green" energy?? It's still producing CO2, although a lot less toxic. than coal. Not a breakthrough, unless I'm missing something. I wish journalists would ask questions and dig a little deeper.

It's step towards progress. Energy is neither created or destroyed, it is only transformed. I think every area in the world has things indigenous to their own area enough to create sustainable communities in every knook in the world. Just my humble opinion about things. I still believe in the new quantum stuff. I do. That's why the bailout doesn't bother me because it will help the transition. Jobs will just be transformed, not deleted. And only if people don't want to learn new things which is their choice, will they have to find other work. Everyone has equal choice to choice their thoughts, their words, their living. They do. So much coming. Youtube has 1,000's of videos in the plethera of ways to create energy. It's coming.

Terrific info Hope to visit again:D