NEXT time you fire-up a barbecue at a public park you may be helping fuel a council truck. The fat that drips off your steaks and snags will be collected and sent to a biofuel plant where it will be turned into biofuel which will then be pumped into light trucks owned by Mackay Regional Council. It may sound like a novel idea, but Year 11 and 12 engineering … [Read more...]
Explosion still a risk at Japan nuclear plant
After stopping the leak of highly radioactive water from a crippled nuclear plant north of Tokyo, Japanese authorities have begun injecting nitrogen into part of the facility in order to prevent a hydrogen explosion. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began pumping nitrogen gas into the area surrounding the No. 1 reactor around 1:30 am (1630 GMT) on … [Read more...]