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more about #waste more comments → Charles Hamilton: "Poor Mr. Polar Bear. When he's not jumping from melting ice chunk to ice chunk trying desperately not to drown, he's avoiding the floating Russian nu... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Well, if they duplicate the power supplies for their atomic lighthouses, but more improved, the chances of theft and use would be dropped highly. more » Nintenboy01: Wait, so they've been dumping nuclear reactors and other toxic waste into the ocean? Maybe all those hideous deep-sea creatures that scientists think ... more » jetRink: I stopped paying attention at this sentence: "The plants' potential impact on the fragile Arctic environment through emissions of radioactivity and he... more » Kaiser-Machead: Oh Smithers, now that I've got my beloved floating Arctic plant, and my prized collection of extinct animals encased in carbonite, I'm on top of the w... more » nukee: Didn't they learn anything from Chernobyl about poor plant design? more » fuchikoma: I've seen tests with these containers dropped from great heights from a crane. They really are immensely tough and reliable. Good thing too, since the... more » Kaiser-Machead: There seems to be some weird alien language all over that video screen. more » FThorn: I think it's not a Russian test. The Russian in the caption is the cyrillic phonetic translation of the English "Crash Test". Russians would use nativ... more » mac_kix_windoze: Actually you're all wrong. There may be Russian text associated with this video but the test itself is 100% British, my friends. The loco is, I believ... more » SalParadise: And the point of this was, what, exactly? more » Weakskills: PhotoShoped!!!! more » Jon Schumaker: instead of blending electronics to see if they hold up, we shall use old Russian trains to test durability! "But will it survive a train?" more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: In Soviet Russia nuclear waste container collides with you... more » GalenAlexis: ... And the real life scenario is...? more » -
#theglowingarctic
Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
Poor Mr. Polar Bear. When he's not jumping from melting ice chunk to ice chunk trying desperately not to drown, he's avoiding the floating Russian nuclear power stations and their potential toxic waste. More » -
#retromodo
This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
On one side, big train running at 100MPH. No driver. On the other, heavy duty containers with nuclear waste. What would happen? Boom. That's what happens. But, surprisingly, not as bad as you can imagine. More » -
#packaging
Call for Ridiculous Packaging Photos for Hall of Shame
We've covered a few before, but since you guys keep uncovering examples of companies supplying you with gizmos in ridiculously voluminous packaging, we're building a new Hall of Shame to give these things a home, and embarrass the perpetrators. More » -
#gadgets
The Massive, Expensive Problem of Obsolete Tech
In 2005, a control room for the A and C subway lines in NYC caught fire. "No larger than a kitchen," the room held 600 relays, switches and circuits that keep track of trains and keep everything running. Officials originally thought it would take three to five years to get the lines back to normal capacity. (Thankfully it didn't.) The epic repair time was because the fixed-block signaling system dates back to 1904 and only two companies in the world were able to repair it, one in Pittsburgh and the other in Paris. This is technology's trailing edge, according to Peter Sandborn in IEEE Spectrum: the huge, crippling problem of obsolescence. More » -
#gadgets
China's E-Waste Problem Poisons Children, Destroys Cities
Since the 1980s, cities like Guiyu, China, have been taking in electronic waste from other countries for dismantlement and processing. It's great for other countries, but takes a huge toll on the people managing the effort because of the "metal extraction of circuit boards" and "open dumping of waste and ash residue into open water". It's made the well water and ground water of Guiyu undrinkable, and has to be trucked in from other villages. The lead poisoning level in children is 69%. [China-Pix via Crunchgear] More »
