Artificial Reefs Around The World

For years now, governments around the world have been sinking large pieces of outdated or damaged equipment into the ocean, turning them into artificial reefs. Subway cars, naval ships, tanks and more rest on the sea floor, making homes for sea life and attracting divers. Artists have been busy as well, erecting underwater sculptures and memorials. 

I still remember that during my early years, maybe somewhere in between of 1988-1990, government used to show propaganda documentary about how artificial reef out of used tires were made. There artificial reef then dump to Malaysian ocean for fish to used as their new home. 

Interestingly, my mom said not only old tire can be made as artificial reef, as there are lots of others thing can be use. Me, being a rebel kid at that time, I'm not agreed to my mom. I believe fish would be scared of man made structure and not treat it as their home. Hahahaa...

Collected here are images from the past few years of some of these man-made reefs, both big and small. 

Divers swim above the former missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key West, Florida May 21, 2010. Algae and sponges are already growing on exterior surfaces of of the 523-foot-long vessel and more than 113 different species of fish are now calling it home. The artificial reef was intentionally sunk May 27, 2009. (Reuters/Don Kincaid/Florida Keys News Bureau) 

The Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, was towed 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday, May 17, 2006, to form an artificial reef. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy/Jeffrey P. Kraus)  

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Awesome Origami Power Folding Baby Stroller

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The world's first power-folding stroller open and close at the touch of a button. My advice, don't forget to take the kid out first.

The Origami is the world's first power-folding stroller: at the touch of a button, it folds itself. It's also the world’s first cell phone-charging, mileage-counting, LCD-sporting stroller, with generators in the rear wheels that charge the stroller as you walk. Plus, the Origami has daytime running lights, pathway lights for low-light conditions, and sensors that detect when a child's in the seat (so it'll never fold by accident).

From power folding to cell phone charging, it's everything a stroller should be. Price at USD 850. 

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Recycling Activities Around The World

November 15 is America Recycles Day, an annual event launched in 1997 by the National Recycling Coalition. The need to reuse and recycle raw materials has never been as urgent as it is today. The human race has reached a worldwide population of 7 billion, and America is responsible for consuming a disproportionate share of the planet's resources. 

In many parts of the world, recycling is done by necessity. In others, artists, governments, and businesses have found creative and useful ways to reuse materials -- a plastic bottle may find itself reborn as artwork, a warm blanket, or fuel oil. 

Collected here are photographs of various recycling efforts around the world, ranging from small and whimsical to industrial in scale.

A laborer rests on piles of plastic bottles at a recycling center in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China, on November 6, 2011. (Reuters/Stringer)

Haylie Alsip, 4, of Grand Haven, plays among hundreds of flowers made from recycled plastic water bottles by Libby Hodges of Florida on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. The ArtPrize entry, titled Thousand Suns, is on display outside the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Rex Larsen)

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Gemasolar Solar Thermal Power Plant

The new Gemasolar Power Plant near Seville in southern Spain is the world's first solar plant to have the capacity to generate electricity even at night. More than 2650 concentrically arranged mirrors spread across 185 hectares of rural land concentrate solar energy towards a centrally located molten nitrate salt tank. As the rays converge, they super-heat the salt to over 900 degree C, causing water around the tank to boil and drive steam turbines. 

In addition, any superfluous heat generated during the day is stored within the liquefied salt. It acts like a giant thermal battery for driving the turbines at night and during overcast days up to 15 hours at a time with no sunlight. But Seville, being one of the sunniest areas in Europe, this doesn't happen very often.

The Gemasolar Power Plant near Seville in southern Spain consists of an incredible 2,650 panels spread across 185 hectares of rural land. The mirrors - known as heliostats - focus 95 per cent of the sun's radiation onto a giant receiver at the centre of the plant.

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