5. Rick Reynolds
4. Mike McIlvain
3. Michael Robinson
2. Walker
1. My dad
and not yet bloggers – but I’d love to read blogs by:
5. Dollye
4. My sister Kara
3. My mom
2. Drew Grisham
1. Laurie
Month: October 2006
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Powered by melon rinds
From CNET:
University of California, Davis wants to light the world with old melon rinds.
The university will show off an experimental facility next week that takes wilted lettuce, fish heads and other leftover food bits and turns it into biogas, a combination of natural gas and carbon dioxide. Separating the CO2 leaves commercial grade natural gas.
The technology, called an anaerobic phased solids digester, has been licensed from the university and adapted for commercial use by Onsite Power Systems. In the digester, microbes eat the garbage and give off valuable gases.
Researchers in Texas are also working on utilizing cow manure for energy sources.
Each ton of broccoli spears, cantaloupe rinds and fish bones should produce enough energy on average to power and heat 10 California homes.
Bring it on.
Google Earth adds election helps
From Lifehacker:
Mapping software Google Earth now has 2 new layers available: a U.S. Election Guide and Congressional Districts layer.
Enable the new layers within Google Earth (free to download, Mac or Windows), and see 436 Congressional districts outlined on the map throughout the U. S. of A., plus election information with candidate names, parties and links to register to vote.
Click the link for more info.
Scottish workers held in Nigeria freed
From the BBC:
Scottish oil workers held hostage for nearly three weeks in Nigeria have said they feared being “sacrificed”.
Graeme Buchan, Paul Smith, George McLean and Sandy Cruden had been seized by armed militants.
Mr Buchan said he was even forced at gunpoint to tell his employers Mr Smith was dead.
Mr Buchan, speaking at Aberdeen Airport, said: “The gun at my head may have uncovered a talent for acting I did not know I had.”
Mr Buchan, alongside Mr Cruden and Mr Smith, who work for Sparrows Offshore in Aberdeen, touched down in Aberdeen Airport on Monday morning.
Downtown Dallas destroyed by leaf blower
From Frontburner:
Bryan Berg spent much of the State Fair of Texas creating an impressive replica of downtown Dallas out of playing cards. Then he used a leafblower to take it all down. There’s video here.