Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Public transport of the future . zero emissions luxury liners that go 90 mph Seymourpowell

This thing goes 90 mph and uses a combination of solar and hydrogen. It also has four separate self sealing in case of rupture- hydrogen pockets. Hong Kong to LA in under 4 days.zero emissions is better than airplanes that burn 35000 gallons of fuel.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

what do we have against lighter than air technology?




Just go take a look at the us patent office, and you will see thousands of lighter than air floating things. The patent office is hours of good reading. Apparently all the greatest inventions are to be buried there for future generations with common sense. Dirigibles do not need to be the way they are. They  have been re-designed in countless ways and degrees of lightness to be the perfect vehicle of the future. Airplane cars with four propellers and deafening sound while they burn shit loads of gas is not the way to go. Boeing jumbo jets hurling a skyscraper lengthwise through the air burning 36,000 gallons of gas is so far from the way it should be I want to scream. To those who say that a downside to airships is that they will be slow, "where there is a will there is a way" never had more meaning. Why was the Hindenburg the end of the air ship era? has anyone seen a plane crash before? it's not pretty. If the paint wasn't also flammable it would have fallen much slower than an airplane.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

16 year old forund bacteria that eats plastic.


First, he ground plastic bags into a powder. Next, he used ordinary household chemicals, yeast and tap water to create a solution that would encourage microbe growth. To that, he added the plastic powder and dirt. Then the solution sat in a shaker at 30 degrees.

After three months of upping the concentration of plastic-eating microbes, Burd filtered out the remaining plastic powder and put his bacterial culture into three flasks with strips of plastic cut from grocery bags. As a control, he also added plastic to flasks containing boiled and therefore dead bacterial culture.

Six weeks later, he weighed the strips of plastic. The control strips were the same. But the ones that had been in the live bacterial culture weighed an average of 17 per cent less.

That wasn't good enough for Burd. To identify the bacteria in his culture, he let them grow on agar plates and found he had four types of microbes. He tested those on more plastic strips and found only the second was capable of significant plastic degradation.

Next, Burd tried mixing his most effective strain with the others. He found strains one and two together produced a 32 per cent weight loss in his plastic strips. His theory is strain one helps strain two reproduce. (whole article)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Tumeric cures cancer



The chemical curcumin - an extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia. However, in recent laboratory tests it has also been shown to destroy cancer cells. (NaturalNews) Turmeric, containing the active ingredient curcumin, is one of nature's most powerful healers. The medicinal properties of this spice have slowly revealed themselves over the centuries. Turmeric is documented as effective in conditions ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. New research is now revealing its benefits as a preventative and treatment for lung, colon, and liver diseases..

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

solar oven


if shiny 45 degree walls is all you need for a solar cooker why dont solar panels have reflectors around them?

Monday, November 16, 2009

http://www.instructables.com/


This is the most amazing revolutionary idea in the world, I mean dont you think we should all know a little about how this technology thing works? as "tool users"? oh yeah, it feels good to stand at the computer instead of sitting. So we don't evolve into useless flesh puddles either.

Thursday, November 12, 2009


Baking soda is the most amazing thing in the world:
detergent, toothpaste, degreaser, antacid, stain remover, carbonatior, raises bread, roach killer, deodorizer....All the poison in the supermarket should be replaced by sodium bicarbonate products.