Dispensary Corner 24 Nov 10
November 24, 2010
ONE cow’s trash is another’s.....
The Huishan Dairy in China is
set to become the first dairy/
electricity supplier in the world,
with its plans to install the largestever
excrement to electricity
conversion system.
According to reports the system
will take droppings from around
60,000 cows, process them in a
fermentation compartment to
generate methane gas, which will
roughly convert into a whopping
six megawatts of electricity (enough
to power around 3,500 homes).
The move to eco-power has got
many scientists excited with the
expanded biogas and renewable
energy possibilities it could conjure.
WORLD Intangible Heritage.
UNESCO, in a move a little left
of field, has dubbed French
cuisine as an official “World
Intangible Heritage”.
The organisation’s Intangible
list is designed to protect cultural
heritages, and the addition of
French cuisine marks the list’s first
gastronomical addition.
At present, including French
food, the Intangible World Heritage
list includes 178 cultural practices,
including Mexico’s Day of the Dead
and Cambodia’s Royal Ballet.
HOW far we’ve come!
One of the first-ever walking and talking human-style robots, George, is back on his game after 45 years of standing and gathering dust in the corner of his creator’s garage. Tony Sale was 19 when he created George in 1950, using spare metal from a Wellington Bomber Plane. At the time his invention stunned his contemporaries, who had never seen a walking talking robot, however rudimentary technology stopped him from having a memory and his charm soon lost its effect, and he got stuffed into Tony’s garage .
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