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Dr. Emmett Brown's invention

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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:53 AM
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would allow soldiers in the field to convert waste into power and could have widespread civilian applications in the future...
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/0...adischBio.html

I bet they scale it down to fit in a delorean.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:55 AM
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but will it be able to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts?
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:55 AM
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and still no functioning flux capacitor? where are their priorities? :madr:
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Snoopy
and still no functioning flux capacitor? where are their priorities? :madr:
you can order one from Delorean's website, part #18851985
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 12:11 PM
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Mr Fusion!
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ED9man
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Right... was not Dr Browns invention. He bought it, along with the hover kit for the car when he went to the future in the 2nd movie.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by clickwir
Right... was not Dr Browns invention. He bought it, along with the hover kit for the car when he went to the future in the 2nd movie.
You don't know that he didn't invent it. That might be the topic of BTTF4.
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