RWE Energy Giant from Andrés Rosas Hott on Vimeo.
This is a cute ad for Germany’s RWE energy company. The ad was created by Happycamper.
Kickers energy spray
March 8, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
This product intrigues me. The thought of having energy in the form of a spray that also fits in your pocket is sorta like a superpower. I imagine I’d be able to do amazing things once I sprayed this into my mouth. Like Popeye and his spinach I guess.
GOOD: Fuel usage to travel 350 miles
February 10, 2009 @ 11:00 am
Does anybody even bother using a bike to travel 350 miles? Because if they did, I’m sure they’d be happy to know that according to this chart from GOOD, a bicycle is the most efficient way to travel that distance.
Also interesting to note: If you’re going to walk 350 miles, you might as well rent a bus and get 48 other friends together (plus you and a driver=50 people) and ride there in luxury because it takes less fuel to do that than to walk there yourself. As a bonus, you’ll be shaving off 95 HOURS of traveling time by taking the bus with friends. Check out the rest of the crazy stats in the infographic.
Grey Water Toilet System uses dirty water from your shower to flush
February 6, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
This is one of those inventions that I read about and end up scratching my head over wondering why nobody had thought of this earlier! The Grey Water Toilet System was invented by Alison Norcott, a student at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia who created a way for toilets to use the dirty water from your time in the shower to flush the bowl. The water is collected from the drain in the shower and stored in an in-wall tank that minimally treats the water using ultrasonic radiation. If you’re worried bacteria growing in a tank filled with dirty water, Alison has designed the system so that it flushes the tank completely of unused water every 24 hours.
Since most bathrooms that I’ve been in already have the toilet and shower in the same vicinity as each other, I don’t really see how this could cause any sort of major headache for somebody who wants to install this in their homes. I think this is a great idea coming from a place that takes water conservation very seriously. I’d love to see Alison’s system made into an actual product for homes in the near future.
Electromagnetic fields cause fluorescent bulbs to glow
February 3, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
Here’s an interesting photo from Matthew Wahl’s Flickr showing the glow from fluorescent tubes as a direct result of the electromagnetic field surrounding overhead power lines. The fluorescent tubes are not plugged in to any power source.
Photo: Peter Dibdin
Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, was one of the first people to discover the phenomenon. He describes it below:
A fluorescent tube glows when an electrical voltage is set up across it. The electric field set up inside the tube excites atoms of mercury gas, making them emit ultraviolet light. This invisible light strikes the phosphor coating on the glass tube, making it glow. Because powerlines are typically 400,000 volts, and Earth is at an electrical potential voltage of zero volts, pylons create electric fields between the cables they carry and the ground.
Box denies that he aimed to draw attention to the potential dangers of powerlines, ‘For me, it was just the amazement of taking something that’s invisible and making it visible,’ he says. ‘When it worked, I thought: ‘This is amazing.’’
Check out this Quicktime panorama of Richard Box’s FIELD project.
Keep in mind that the bulbs do not necessarily glow that bright on their own. Many of the images taken of bulbs in these scenarios are long exposures. However, the bulbs do glow enough to see with the naked eye, so the awe in seeing this occurrence will surely still be there if you were to try this for yourself.
Cool! I’d love to try this one day. :)
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