Link to Technology Review: A Portable Refinery Powered by Garbage

Here's something for the backyard...a machine that turns waste into electricity.

Researchers have built and tested for the military a portable machine that efficiently turns waste into electricity.

An energy-from-waste project led by researchers at Purdue University is giving new meaning to the term "military power." Scientists from the university's department of agricultural and biological engineering have developed a portable machine that turns a variety of food waste and inorganic trash into electricity, reducing the amount of diesel fuel and garbage that soldiers in the field must carry with them. [More]