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| Angel's Nest |
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Angel's Nest is a sustainable home in Taos, New
Mexico made from straw bale, tires, pop cans and
bottles. The electricity is generated through wind
and solar technology. Rain water is captured as
culinary water and there is a bio-diesel/hydrogen
fueling station outside.
http://www.empowermentchannel.org
Tags : sustainable off-grid earthship strawbale Taos solar wind hydrogen bio-diesel |
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| China Beijing Olympic National Stadium - Bird's Nest (1of5) |
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The Beijing National Stadium (traditional Chinese:
北京國家體育場; simplified Chinese:
北京国家体育场; Hanyu Pinyin: Běijīng
Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng; Tongyong Pinyin: Běijīng
Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), also known as the National
Stadium,[1] or the "Bird's Nest" (鳥巢) for its
architecture, is a stadium finished for the
Olympic Green in Beijing, China that has so far
been completed as of March 2008.[2] The stadium
will host the main track and field competitions
for the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as the
opening and closing ceremonies. It is located east
of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.
In 2002, Government officials engaged architects
worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker
Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron
collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture
Design & Research Group to win the competition.
Contemporary Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, is the
Artistic Consultant for design.[3] The ground was
broken on Christmas Eve December 2003, and
construction started in March 2004, but was halted
by the high construction cost in August 2004 and
continued again. In January 2008, concerns about
construction working conditions arose when it was
revealed that 2 workers had died during the
stadium's construction.
The stadium can seat as many as 91,000 spectators
during the Olympics. The capacity will then be
reduced to 80,000 after the Games. It has replaced
the original intended venue of the Guangdong
Olympic Stadium[citation needed]. The stadium is
330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2
metres tall. The stadium uses 258,000 square
metres of space and has a usable area of 204,000
square metres. It was built with 36 km of
unwrapped steel[citation needed], with a combined
weight of 45,000 tonnes. The stadium has some
11,000 square metres of underground rooms with
waterproof walls. The stadium will cost up to 3.5
billion yuan (≈423 million USD).
Upon completion, this stadium will boast a state
of the art Solar PV system produced by Suntech
Power
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| Birds Nest Soup - Thailand |
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February 2006
The small Thai town of Pattani has gone to the
birds -- literally. The town's economy is booming
after residents started collecting bird saliva.
Sea Swift nests, used to make birds' nest soup and
made from hardened saliva, sell for $2,000 a kg. A
few years ago, the birds inexplicably started
colonising Pattani. Now, all the residents have
got in on the act. As one resident states: "We
used to live here. But now we're going to move to
make space for the birds."
Tags : journeyman pictures bizarre quirky birds nest soup thailand food unusual random |
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