Segments of The Boring Company’s boring machine, called Godot. (credit: The Boring Company) Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk is good at finding alternative markets for his products. He did this with the lithium-ion batteries he was building and sourcing for his Model S, X, and eventually Model 3 cars: by developing a […]
Tag: Sewers
Why Cities Are Starting to Shun Sewers
On the outskirts of Bangalore, India’s tech capital, an office doubles as a museum of the toilet. An exhibit in one room traces the history of sanitation, from ancient Mesopotamian sewers to Europe’s first flush toilets and the modern sewer systems built to process the waste they spurt out. Then, another exhibit turns to the […]
Sewers paved with gold? $1.8m worth of precious metals turn up in Swiss wastewater
Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 05:06 The next gold rush could be brewing beneath the streets of Switzerland if a new study from the country’s water research body is to be believed. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, known as EAWAG, its German acronym, surveyed 64 wastewater treatment plants across […]
Sewers paved with gold? $1.8m worth of precious metals turn up in Swiss wastewater
Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 05:06 The next gold rush could be brewing beneath the streets of Switzerland if a new study from the country’s water research body is to be believed. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, known as EAWAG, its German acronym, surveyed 64 wastewater treatment plants across […]
Victoria review: Hairbrushes, fancy helmets and sewers comedy perfectly balance the drama
Instead of balls at Balmoral, we got bombardiers blue with cold. Instead of court finery, a tattered Union flag. British troops had retreated from Afghanistan, and were trying to escape through the Khyber Pass in winter. In this drama, Queen Victoria, who was in confinement after the birth of her first child, knew nothing about […]
Second ‘It’ Trailer: Terror Lies in the Sewers of Derry, Maine
For anyone who has coulrophobia, a fear of clowns, you’ll probably want to steer clear for the latest trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King‘s beloved horror novel It. Much like the first trailer, It doesn’t go out of its way to try to terrify you with cheap jump scares. Instead, they let suspense […]