21 Uses of Old Coffee Grounds
From repelling ants, removing furniture scratches to exfoliating skin and repelling dog fleas, there are loads of uses for used up and flavourless Java (Toraja, Sumatra, Mandailing, or whatever your taste is).
But not Nescafé.
A Tearless Onion
And why not, eh?
Scientists have developed a tearless onion that means cooks may no longer have to suffer stinging eyes and crying in the kitchen.
The breakthrough by New Zealand's crop and food research institute after six years of research has been made using gene silencing technology. But although the tearless onion will be welcomed by cooks everywhere, it is still at the prototype stage and will not be in kitchens for at least another decade.
Sixteen years working on something which isn't needed? After all, an alternative is to peel and chop the onions in a pan or bowl of water.
What next - square watermelons?
Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Friday, 1 February 2008
Out Of Our Boxes - 1
Change The Margins
Several weeks ago, I was doing research for an environmental documentary, so Green issues were constantly present in my mind. As I was doing my usual margin-changin' thang while printing out a document for my boss, a light bulb went off in my brain. What if you could get people to adopt changing paper margins on a large scale? What if you could get companies to adopt narrower margins as their printing standard? It would result in a lot less paper consumption. Which of course means saving a lot of trees and cutting down on a lot of waste...but only if a massive amount of people changed their margins.
It's not a new idea. It's not complicated. But if we all did it, it just might work.
2. Bamboo PC is Environment Friendly and It Looks Nice Too
3. No Left - or Right - Turns
............. sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn, is minutely wasteful — of time and peace of mind, for sure, but also of gas and therefore money.
UPS, with 95,000 trucks delivering packages every day in the US, set up routes which largely eliminated left turns thus shaving 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
And, no doubt, vastly increased profits.
But no matter. This could work in Indonesia but first the traffic police need to pass their driving tests ....
Several weeks ago, I was doing research for an environmental documentary, so Green issues were constantly present in my mind. As I was doing my usual margin-changin' thang while printing out a document for my boss, a light bulb went off in my brain. What if you could get people to adopt changing paper margins on a large scale? What if you could get companies to adopt narrower margins as their printing standard? It would result in a lot less paper consumption. Which of course means saving a lot of trees and cutting down on a lot of waste...but only if a massive amount of people changed their margins.
It's not a new idea. It's not complicated. But if we all did it, it just might work.
2. Bamboo PC is Environment Friendly and It Looks Nice Too
3. No Left - or Right - Turns
............. sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn, is minutely wasteful — of time and peace of mind, for sure, but also of gas and therefore money.
UPS, with 95,000 trucks delivering packages every day in the US, set up routes which largely eliminated left turns thus shaving 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
And, no doubt, vastly increased profits.
But no matter. This could work in Indonesia but first the traffic police need to pass their driving tests ....
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