Forget ethanol, two Brits are using chocolate to make a 4,568-mile biofuel-powered cannonball run from the U.K to Timbuktu inMali, West Africa. At the end of November, Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, will take off on in a salvaged vehicle theyve dubbed the BioTruck, which runs off a specially prepared biodeisel made with waste replica Breitling Aeromarine Avenger Seawolf Men's watc chocolate, to raise awareness about cutting carbon emissions. “A lot of people dont realise that when Biodiesel is made correctly, any unmodified diesel engine will run on it, Pag said. Once in Mali, the team will also deliver a smallproduction unit that will allow a local charity to produce biodiesel locally from sustainable sources. And Snickers bars, we presume.--Damon Tabor
Yesterdays Congressional override of President Bushs veto on the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (H.R. 1495) was historic. Being the first time Bush has had his presidential veto overridden made the event newsworthy in and of itself, but this bill—the first new water bill in seven years to be passed by Congress—provides the replica Breitling D233 Men's watch opportunity for restoration projects in Florida’s Everglades, flood-control projects in the Gulf States and much more to be appropriated. And the impact from these projects might prove even more historic than the news of their overridden birth. The president has derided the bill as filled with Congressional pork (like the authorization for a third visitor center in Morgan City, Louisiana).
But the bill only approves $23 billion for water resource management without dividing it among the projects—including restoration for 800 miles of the Mississippi River that, according to the National Audubon Society, could replica Breitling B7135612-G Lady watch Diamond Ladie's benefit 300 bird species and 100 fish species—but likely not make the river any easier to swim across. So now it is up to Congress turn what may look like pork back into water. --Jason KerkmansChinese authorities have decided to post the mountaineering equivalent of a mall security guard on Mount Everest after a spate of recent gear thefts. During this years climbing season, expedition teams complained aboutthe mysterious disappearance of vital equipment like oxygen bottles,food and cooking gas.
