But the tech industry has a dirty little secret: it has toxic waste of its own. Phones and computers contain dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and mercury, which can contaminate the air and water when those products are dumped.
Officially, this shouldn't be happening. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was established by the UN in 1989 to control the hazardous garbage flowing from rich countries to…
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Much like the fictional cleaning robot currently packing movie theaters, robots are being used to clean humanitys worst messes. At Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, where plutonium for Cold War nukes was made, robots are on the front line of the cleanup effort. Exposure to the material would kill a human within moments.
Tandem Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (T-SAFT), aka “Tank Crawler”
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The US military is looking to cut back on two things in Iraq: fuel consumption and trash. So theyre finally getting on board with alternative fuel sources, using the trash they dont want to get the fuel for electricity they need.
The prototype accepts trash in a chute at one end, and the wet and dry wastes are separated. The dry trash is crushed, pelletized, and fed into a gasifier where the pellets are heated until they’re turned into synthetic gas, which then…
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Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs ? very, very small ones ? so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Using genetically modified bugs for
When Gold, discoverer of quasars, drilled deep for gas and oil on the basis of his grasp of the planet's composition, his deepest oil samples held micro-bacteria that had thrived in heat and pressure within crude oil, killed only by the…
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Rahul Sood, the CTO of HPs gaming systems division (formerly VoodooPC), has found a new use for the MacBook Air: slicing cake. Handed a MacBook Air as a present? at his birthday, he tested its razor-thinness on the cake. Its so damn sharp, it did a fine job,? he reports.
Judging by who he is, I’m highly inclined to believe he did it as a way of disregard to the Notebook. Yet I’m torn between shouting out ‘BLASPHEMY!’ and ‘That’s another addition to the…
Thousands of discarded computers from western Europe and the US arrive in the ports of west Africa every day, ending up in massive toxic dumps where children burn and pull them apart to extract metals for cash.
“Ghana is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for waste from Europe and the US,” according to Mike Anane…
Six years ago the EU produced the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive, which introduced new curbs and restrictions on the movement of e-waste. The directive, which came into effect in Britain in January last…
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Think you’re a fanboy? Supporters of the Samsung Group gathered for a rally during a press conference held by Kim Yong-chul, a lawyer calling for punishments to be handed out to disgraced company CEO Lee Kun-hee. During the proceedings, supporters burned pictures of Kim and generally made Apple and Microsoft fanatics look like choir boys.
helloUser:In the Danish cartoons situation, at least they had a reason (however primitive, pathetic, and reactionary).In France, Some of the muslims were rioting for not getting enough welfare and ass-wiping from the government. And…
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