Crikey’s pick of the day’s green news:
Carbon-friendly crypts. The town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet in Barcelona, Spain, has covered a cemetery with solar panels, “transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy” reports MSNBC. The 462 panels produces produce the equivalent to the yearly energy use of 60 homes.
Fishy technology. Slow river and ocean currents could be a new source of renewable energy with a machine created by a University of Michigan engineer that works like a fish to turn vibrations in water flows into power, says the Environmental News Network.
A mammoth step for DNA. The DNA from the extinct woolly mammoth has been sequenced, says Live Science, but what are the ethical concerns in potentially bringing back an extinct species?
Carbon is forever. Carbon dioxide emissions could hang around for millenia, say some climate scientists, according to Nature Report. Says University of Chicago oceanographer David Archer: “The lifetime of fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere is a few centuries, plus 25 percent that lasts essentially forever. The next time you fill your tank, reflect upon this.”
PETA save Bond’s bacon. The well-meaning folk at PETA picked up on a story that Daniel Craig had British bacon flown to him while filming the latest Bond film in Italy, and sent the swarthy actor some veggie-bacon (AKA fake-on, AKA puke) to save him from himself and raise the plight of factory-farmed piggies. Admirable, but as a bona fide vegetarian, let me say this: fake meat will convince precisely no one to give up meat, as it is just about the worst thing on Earth.
