December 2009
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(14th December 2009)
Thames Water released a press release last week announcing that they had saved £15 million on energy costs from using "poo power." They burn sludge to get electricity. Great, but people in the time of Alexander the Great, who had elementary biogas digesters, knew that shit can create energy. It's great that so many Thames plants use thermal destruction with energy recovery (burning "poo ...
→ Taleban
(13th December 2009)
This powerful article in the Sunday Times is about soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and their recovery, mostly at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham. The reporter had unprecedented access because his brother was blown up by an IED. The tales of injury and recovery - or not - are moving, and I learned a lot: Shrimp-derived anti-clotting bandages? Shark skin to cover burns? But my ...