“‘Poop As You Go’ Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan” reads the headline on Treehugger’s report about exactly that. Treehugger gives details: Japan’s biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that’s powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs […]
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Knight on a treadmill (a tale of energy spent)
ScienceNOW reports on a new study (published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B) about knights of old: Heavy Armor Gave Knights a Workout Knights in shining armor paid a heavy price for the protection their suits provided them from swords, arrows, and Frenchmen catapulting cows. Researchers have found that the steel plate-mail armor worn during […]
Toss expired medicines into a test tube?
There may, conceivably, maybe be a use for medicines that have become too old to use, suggests the celebrated inventor Prakash Vaithyanathan, a high school teacher in Chennai, India. On the Enexions web site he sketches his idea for an experiment: DISPOSAL OF EXPIRED MEDICINES Just out of curiosity I tried experimenting with just one […]
Hydrogen phrase originator (and Ig winner)
The phrase ” The Hydrogen Economy” was invented by a man who went on to win an Ig Nobel Prize. So, at least, is the claim by the authors of The Oil Drum: The dream of the hydrogen economy is one that has been around since the 1970’s, and has been heavily hyped by sources […]