Showing posts with label ICE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ICE. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

HOW HOT HAS IT BEEN LATELY ?


Heat wave in New York. July 6, 1911. "Licking blocks of ice on a hot day." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

A ROBOT THAT EATS SNOW AND POOPS ICE BRICKS




What's cute, yellow, eats snow and poops out bricks of ice?

Meet Yuki-taro, a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows.

The cute little guy, about 5 feet long and 2 and a half feet high, simply plows into snowbanks, taking in the white stuff, compressing it and neatly stacking it in two-foot-long bricks on his rear bed.