Everyone should occasionally break the law

in some small and delightful way,
it’s good for the hygiene of the brain."
(Sir Terry Pratchett)



Cheeky & Geeky Se Moi;

Vision, Faith & Attitude!

Nie Hao, Gaat ie, Fawakka?


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Coke Picks up Pace on 100% PlantBottle as Cola Wars Continue

The Cola Wars have entered into a new, green phase. No longer focused on blind taste tests, Coke and Pepsi have for the past two years been engaged in a race to the top to bring plant-based, recyclable beverage bottles to market.

Coke scored the first hit back in 2009 with theannouncement of its PlantBottle, made of 30 percent sugar-based plastics but still completely recyclable with regular plastic packaging.

Pepsi then took a big step forward earlier this year with the unveiling of plans to bring a 100 percent plant-based bottle to market as soon as 2013.

Coke, which says it has already sold 10 billion drinks around the world in PlantBottles, moved this morning to retake the lead with the announcement today that it has launched three strategic partnerships to bring next-gen PlantBottles to market.

The company is teaming up with Virent, Gevo and Avantium, each of which have developed alternatives to oil-based plastics, to develop and speed to market fully recyclable and fully fossil-fuel-free plastics.

“While the technology to make bio-based materials in a lab has been available for years, we believe Virent, Gevo and Avantium are companies that possess technologies that have high potential for creating them on a global commercial-scale within the next few years,” Rick Frazier, Vice President of Commercial Product Supply for the Coca-Cola Company, said in a statement. “This is a significant R&D investment in packaging innovation and is the next step toward our vision of creating all of our plastic packaging from responsibly sourced plant-based materials.”

Each of the partners will follow their own timeline for developing the materials, with Virent setting 2015 for its target date to open the first full-scale commercial plant to produce its PET made from bio-based paraxylene.

Coca-Cola intends to replace all of its petroleum-based plastics with biobased materials by 2020, with the PlantBottle a central element of that goal. The company has already created a 100 percent plant-based bottle for its Odwalla beverage line, but the high-density polyethylene (HDPE) material for that packaging is not suitable for carbonated or room-temperature beverages.

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A Chinese Farmer And His Idiosyncratic Robot Family

Mr. Wu Yulu is an ordinary Chinese farmer in his 50s, who was born in the suburbs of Beijing and has lived there all his life. About half the Chinese population holds the occupation of farmer, making it one of the most ordinary and humble positions in contemporary Chinese society. But despite his profession, Wu wasn’t born to be a loyal land owner—since childhood he has been fascinated with robots. When he turned 20, he dedicated himself to the study of mechanics in order to achieve his life-long goal of building his own robots.

Over the years, Wu has spent most of his time and money crafting these machines—once he nearly burnt down his house when an experiment went wrong. Scorned by his village and family for being an irresponsible farmer, Wu continued with his tinkering in spite of the his village’s myopic belief that a man who only attended primary school had no business messing about with robotics and mechanics. But none of that could stop Wu from experimenting. He made his first walking robot in 1986, and since then, many more robots have followed in its footsteps. 

(Source: thecreatorsproject.com)