If you've never seen Back to the Future featuring Michael J. Fox in his early years alongside Chrisopher Lloyd, then you missed Marty (Michael J. Fox's character) working with crazed scientist Doc Brown (Chrisopher Lloyd) on his Delorean time machine containing the famed 'Flux Capacitor'. You may be wondering how this ties into an environmental article about wastes being turned into fuels, well you see, at the end of the first movie, Doc Brown flies in with a newly modified Delorean, which converts anything (he throws in a banana peel, a coke can, and an empty egg carton) into fuel. Well, that was 2015 in the movies, but here in 2011, I think we have managed to do something of the sort. The Chicago Tribune reported that in nearby Naperville, a new device is able to convert any day yard waste into three types of fuels: electricity, ethanol, and hydrogen. It may not QUITE do what Doc Brown's machine did, but it shows that our technology is going as far as the imagination without sacrificing the world around us.
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