Travelling halfway around the world to speak at a conference - always a great opportunity to learn something new.
Dr Thornburg talked about a microbial fuel cell - that uses manure and salt water to generate electricity. Nice.
Imagine combining this with the OLPC... or other low watt computing devices... such as mobile internet gadgets and smart phones...
Poo Powered Computing - The PooPuter! :)
heh. http://www.microbialfuelcell.org/
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/05/how_to_make_microbial_fuel_cel.html