Eco-Carbons to convert cereal-grain ’seconds’, husks, fruit stones, nut shells, even straw, into renewable energy

A pilot factory based in Gunnedah, NSW, and perhaps a second unit in Toowoomba, Queensland, could spearhead the emergence of an industrial process able to turn farm wastes into charcoal beads, providing a new source of renewable energy, wrote Graham Fuller in Queensland Country Life (4/10/2007, p.23).

India’s “deviant research” roadshow: helping amateur inventors improve lives; Honey Bee Network now repository for more than 10,000 inventions

Examples of “deviant research”, so called because they were developed by amateurs trying to solve problems that dogged their daily lives, rather than to make money, were outlined in New Scientist (22/9/2007, p.56).