Easy energy savings

A KW Record article today provides some interesting details about ervenue from our local curb-side recycling:
• Aluminum: $2,176 per tonne sold to Anheuser-Busch
• Glass: $20 per tonne, processing in Guelph.
• Steel cans: $171 per tonne most goes to Hamilton.
• Newsprint $96 per tonne, sold in Ontario
• Mixed paper: $47 per tonne
• Corrugated cardboard: $93 per tonne
• Boxboard (cereal boxes): $57 per tonne
• Plastic bags: $139 / tonne
• Plastic #1: $365 per tonne
• Plastic #2: $634 / tonne
• Plastic #s 3-7: $16 / tonne, mostly shipped to China.

Paradoxical humanitarianism

There is an interesting article in the September 2007 issue of Wired about humanitarianism and how people donate their money.

A group of people were shown a picture of a little girl who is starving and asked how much they would donate. A different group were shown the same little girl as well as one other little girl in the same dire situation. Same scenario, but people gave less. Not just less per child. Less. In a similar experiment it was a group of eight children dying vs one. The eight received on average 50 percent less.

Clive Thompson is the author.
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Paper battery

Researchers at Rensselaer have developed a new energy storage device that is 90% cellulose making it flexible and infused with aligned carbon nanotubes which act as electrodes.