City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 18 Oct 2016

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder’s Public Library is Colorado’s 2016 Library of the Year. "Masquerading Munchkins" are taking-over the Pearl Street Mall. And Boulder researchers are turning beer into batteries.

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This week on inside folder news holders, Public Library is Colorado's, 2016 library of the year masquerading munchkins are taking over the Pearl Street Mall and Boulder researchers are turning beer into batteries.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your chance to share your stories, get involved and keep up to date on all things: Boulder, I'm, Kristin, Skov era. Well, it's one of the most popular places in boulder with nearly 1 million visitors every year. I'm talking about the city's very own public library and the library's transformation has earned it high honors this year. A library is full of stories, but this one is a little different. This.

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Is not the typical story that people are telling about libraries? That's.

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Because boulders public library is not simply a place to check out books, it's simply the place to be. We.

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Have always been a community gathering space boulders of support for the public library has been phenomenal in terms of visits that.

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Stated farnan the library and arts director who says it's all about creating strong and lasting partnerships like the boulder farmers market, the Jaipur Literature Festival and the local tech community I. Don't.

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Know that it's something that necessarily that we're doing alone it's the fact that the community is here when you come to the library place is poppin I mean there are programs going on in the children's room. There are people who are looking for space for quiet reflection. The cafe is always jumping the.

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Numbers are up across the board: there are 1 million visitors every year. New borrowers are up almost seventeen percent, an e-book circulation. That's up almost thirty percent. You.

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Know our numbers have been phenomenal, so we have seen over the last year, one hundred and forty percent increase in program attendance building, 61 alone has had over 16,000 people in it. That's.

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Nine patents patent applications have emerged from building 61 and we've only been open for nine months building.

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61 is the library's maker space, where the only limitation is your own imagination, high-tech.

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And low-tech, so there's a lot of textile equipment. We have screen printing, we have weaving, we have sewing more.

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Than 1,000 people attended the grand opening and.

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There's nothing we won't try. So we've tried basically everything in building 61. This.

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Story of success is far from over david says. It only motivates them to do more for more information on the boulder public library and its many programs visit boulder library, dot, org voter service centers are open and ready to take your vote. They're open weekdays from eight a.m. to six p.m. and saturday from 9am to 1pm. If you're, not sure, if you're actually registered to vote, you can check your voter registration status online at boulder county votes, org or you can text the word colorado or simply co2 to vote.

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That's 28, 683 drive by locations will open November. Fourth, there are also 24-hour boxes spread throughout the city. If you do decide to vote in person, don't forget to bring a valid ID, but no matter what you do just be sure to get your ballot turned in on time november. Eighth Colorado does not have a registration deadline, so you can register up to and on Election Day, but remember, Monday October thirty-first is the deadline to register for a mail-in ballot or make changes to your registration for frequently asked questions and service center locations.

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You can visit Boulder County votes org. As you may know, Colorado is home to hundreds of breweries and each one uses water to make their beer producing thousands of gallons of waste. But here in Boulder, researchers are brewing up a new wait to turn dirty water into better batteries.

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Tyler Huggins is a boulder-based scientist, who's not afraid to get his hands dirty I mean.

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As long as they're brewing they're gonna have this wastewater stream. This.

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Is tyler fishing out wastewater from beneath Avery Brewing Company, the brewery agreed to share their dirty water for the Advancement of science and sustainability. They.

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You know they're all been really responsive. Most rivers are very progressive, very environmentally conscious wastewater.

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Is not in short supply. It takes about seven barrels of water to make one barrel of beer and that.

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Can be even up to like 12 Tyler.

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And his research partner, Justin whiteley, have created a way to turn this dirty water into an organic material used to power batteries. We.

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Are trying to make advanced carbon materials or electrodes for batteries using a living, filamentous fungus as a template? This.

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Is the fungus it grows quickly, feeding off the sugars in the beer, so.

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This actually works has dual benefits, so one we can grow. This template based our material in this sugar-rich growth, medium and produce lots of biomass and Alta mately lots of material, and then we also can clean the water in the process and kind of have this full cycle benefits. Once.

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The fungus is big enough: the researchers dried out and bake it until it looks like this: a block of carbon material which becomes nearly half of a lithium ion battery. So.

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Most conventional batteries are made out of graphite. This is mined from these large deposits and primarily done in China, so we actually have no current production of graphite in the United States Tyler.

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Says we're placing graphite with this new material could change the energy industry helping to fuel the future like electric cars there.

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Is enough volume there that week it's provide a material to someone like Tesla, for example, and we could give them a consistent supply of it. Calling.

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All paranormal investigators: this is your reminder to grab your goggles and your proton packs and help the boulder public library stave off the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Friday, film social is taking us ghost hunting. This friday, October 28th from 6pm to 9pm, with a special supernatural screening of the classic Ghostbusters in honor.

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Of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, we are going to have a gourmet marshmallow bar for everyone. Who's no job is too big. No fee is too big and we also have the Fort Collins Ghost Busters club coming and they are bringing their ecto vehicle. 80's.

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Attire or Halloween costumes are very much encouraged. That.

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Would be really ideal would be that the public would come in costume in one way, shape or form or perhaps hollering out like. Maybe when that secretary gets up Ghostbusters Ghostbusters.

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What do you want? The screening will take place in the library's canyon theater, for more information visit, the boulder public library's website at boulder library, dot org, the Halloween fun doesn't stop there. Every year. Downtown Boulder is invaded by thousands of tiny ghosts and goblins they're, pretty adorable I'm, talking, of course, about the annual munchkin masquerade where fairies and princes superheroes and animals Trick or Treat all along Pearl Street. This year, more than 100 spots will be handing out treats.

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This event is put together by the downtown Boulder partnership, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of downtown Boulder. The 2016 munchkin masquerade is Monday October thirty-first from three to six pm. You can download a treat, stop map and find more information online at Boulder, downtown calm, and we didn't forget our furry friends. The city's open space and mountain parks department will host its regular halloween event for dogs. Sunday October thirtieth dress up your pet and head to Cherry Vale trailhead from 11am to 1pm.

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Your dogs can do tricks and you can give them free, treats and other dog friendly goodies courtesy of OS MP all while enjoying the beautiful fall colors on city, open space for more information check out, osm Keith.

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