Many of the solutions being developed involve cutting - edge technology that could
turn human waste into fuel to power local communities, fertilizer to improve crops, or even safe drinking water.
Not exact matches
On this year's list, robots are going places no
human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from
waste and
turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).
Jenni McDonough, VP of
human resources explains that they took a small, windowless room, added a sofa, a blanket and an alarm clock,
turning what would normally be
wasted space into a valued place.
He'd say the same as above, plus, what a
wasted, bitter,
human you
turned out to be.
Percival Zhang is
turning plant
waste into starches that could one day be ingredients in
human food products.
There is an elegance to Dwork's approach that is almost as appealing as its practical value: After years of
humans wasting time deleting spam from their in - boxes, the ultimate spam - blocking solution may
turn out to be
wasting the computer's time — on purpose.
Eventually, his excavations
turned up a partial
human skull and fragments of a tibia among the food
waste in the starving time layer.
To reiterate, the game can not be
turned off or saved and the player must constantly monitor their progress to avoid death by zombie or Psychopath (the
human enemies in the game) else all the hours they've invested are
wasted.
Manish Nai brings his signature compressions of
waste material
turned into sculpture while Prajakta Potnis explores the effects of sterile spaces on the
human mind.
But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of
turning everything on earth into toxic
waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any
human time scale).
The destruction of mountains, streams, rivers and groundwater, the destruction of land laid
waste by strip - mining, the loss of wildlife in these areas, the
human illnesses and premature deaths that result from these practices especially in Appalachia, the CO2 emissions and resulting climate change along with the havoc this causes — all of these are externalities that do not enter into the price companies pay to mine the stuff or the costs we pay to
turn on the a.c.
So now you got fumes from
human waste, toxic cleaners, hairsprays and solvents and drain cleaners, all building up in a tiny little room with a closed door and a twelve buck fan that nobody
turns on.
Any other form of energy can be
turned into heat, either partially, or completely; and what lay folks refer to as «heat» is simply the result of
turning some other form of energy; which can include EM radiation; once again, all the way from down to but not including DC, up to the end of the gama ray spectrum (orbeyond), into the
waste mechanical energy of some physical matter; and for most people that is a result of absorption of EM radiation by mostly water in the
human body; that's what WE feel as «heat».