Gold from recycled electronics

That's amazing. Just look around your house, everything has precious metals in it. Gold, Silver, Zinc etc..

All worth something when taken to a factory!

Electric Bikes Are Swarming

Source: TIME

Of all the things that have changed in China over the past 30 years, transportation has undergone one of the most obvious of transformations. Where city streets once swarmed with bicycles, they are now full of automobiles. Cars clog intersection and expressways. Their exhaust clouds the sky and the air is full of the sound of horns. But zipping through the congestion is the vanguard of another transportation revolution: vehicles that use no gas, emit no exhaust and are so quiet they can surprise the unwary pedestrian.

In China, electric bicycles are leaving cars in the dust. Last year, Chinese bought 21 million e-bikes, compared with 9.4 million autos. While China now has about 25 million cars on the road, it has four times as many e-bikes. Thanks to government encouragement and a population well versed in riding two wheels to work, the country has become the world's leading market for the cheap, green vehicles, helping to offset some of the harmful effects of the country's automobile boom. Indeed, as engineers around the world scramble to create eco-friendly, plug-in electric cars, China is already ahead of the game. Says Frank Jamerson, a former GM engineer turned electric-vehicle analyst: "What's happening in China is sort of a clue to what the future will be."

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That's fine in China when you're going 2 miles an hour. Don't think that would work in Canada. I don't want to be on a electric bicycle when it's -40 degrees!

Cool idea though, anything to save gas. More gas for me!

Earth Hour in Asia

Source: M&C

A combo picture showing Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers along with other building before and after turned off their lights to mark Earth Hour in Kuala Lumpur 28 March 2009. Earth Hour is a campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions.

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15-inch butanding rescued in Sorsogon

Source: philstar

MANILA, Philippines - A 15-inch whale shark, locally known as butanding, has been found in Sorsogon.

Conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines (WWF-Philippines) reported yesterday that the rescue of what could be the smallest whale shark in the country, and perhaps in the world, might lead to answers to the mystery of where the sea creatures breed.

According to the WWF, the baby whale shark was caught last Friday in nearby San Antonio, a barangay of Pilar town, adjacent to Donsol in Sorsogon and was allegedly about to be sold.

Wow! I never knew whales could be that small! Lucky the WWF got there before they made it lunch!