Recycling tires to make new tires

Recycling 30 million old tires to create new ones

Magnum D’Or Resources is buying a landfill containing more than 30 million tires and using their special technology, will create new rubber and tires from them. CleanTechnica has more

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BMW 320d diesel gets 57 mpg and has low emissions

The BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics Edition gets better mileage than a Prius and does 0-60 in 8.2 seconds.

Organized crime?

UBS will divulge names of some 4,450 wealthy Americans suspected of dodging taxes through secret bank accounts. Many of those people, and the bankers and attorneys who advised them, could also face criminal charges.

I suspected as much

Early risers are mutants

Hartford Courant continues downward spiral towards being fishwrap

The Courant recently fired 42 year veteran reporter George Gombossy because he wanted to run an article about the Attorney General investigating one of the Courant’s biggest advertisers.

Perhaps the craven, ethically-challenged executives at the Courant should have considered what would happen after they went up against an actual, seasoned reporter.

Gary Weiss

Today [...]

Gyroscopic electric-powered unicycle

The eniCycle can go 10mph with a range of 30 miles. Learning to ride it takes just a few minutes. Production starts soon.

Lt. Calley apologizes for My Lai Massacre during Vietnam War

“There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai,” Calley told members of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus on Wednesday. His voice started to break when he added, “I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, [...]

Pioneers. Solar Furnace and Power. Arizona 1903

Here’s an excerpt about them from The Book of Knowledge, pub. 1919, scanned by Google Books.

The Arizona Republic on this early attempt at solar power

The company’s steam engine worked by concentrating sunlight on curved reflectors and into a specially designed high-pressure boiler. It could be used on any engine equipped with the [...]

Pioneers. Steinmetz Electric Motor Car. 1923

From Scripophily.com

Charles Steinmetz formed the Steinmetz Electric Motor Car Co. in 1920 to designed prototypes of several electric vehicles. The company was in Brooklyn, where it produced an industrial truck and a lightweight delivery car.

The first electrical Steinmetz truck hit the road in early 1922 by climbing a steep hill in Brooklyn [...]

Catholic Bishops call for end to Cuba embargo

Good. The embargo serves no purpose and causes unnecessary suffering for people in both nations. End it now.