Month November 2007

Biomass power plants

They can generate electricity from waste wood and biomass from agriculture. One such plant being planned for Wales will be able to power half their homes. Which sounds like a major wow, except that “virgin wood chips” might be used,…

Spray on condoms

The system works a bit like a car wash. The man put his penis in a chamber and presses a button to start the jets of liquid latex, sucked from a detachable cartridge. Just the thing for those romantic moments…

Britain to send dissident back to Uzbekistan

Jahongir Sidikov is a member of an opposition party in Uzbekistan. He has been denied political asylum in Britain and may soon be sent back where he will almost certainly face hideous torture. British authorities know this because they’ve sent…

School funds leaking like SIV

Schools have been parking funds in supposedly safe pools that got slightly higher rates than money market funds. Trouble is, the pools were goosing the yield with highly risky SIVs – and many of them have now defaulted, something which…