Couple of companies in Evanston Indiana want to be the first in the world to provide full-scale waste-to-energy plants with processes previously used only in demonstration projects. This means turning not just a specific, controlled industrial waste stream, but the insanity that is municipal solid waste.
“The thorny question of where to build such a plant is yet to be answered.”
A humble craftsman such as myself can only hope to be inspired by true vision. For some reason, the ones with TVs are the funniest, though the piano has the most pathos.
By the way, hello Make and BoingBoing readers (in other words, hello to almost every geek in the US).
This is what you’d call a soft launch. The email address for posting is sf@garbagescout.com, and the format of the email is still a picture, along with text like description @ address, for instance, I don’t know, tambourine @ 1540 Haight St.
For those interested in the technical side of things, the backend code of about three quarters of the garbagescout site has been rewritten. Let me know if you see any bugs. The main change you will see for now is that the URLs are different. They are neater.
The other change you will see is that the home URL is garbagescout.com/ny. AHA!, you may say to yourself. Yes, things are going on behind the scene. If you live outside of New York City and want to try garbagescout, please let me know. You can be in on the test of the new nationwide ’scout!
So, in working on the expansion to other cities in the US, one casualty is that “Not on map” posts are gone. If the computer can’t find your address, it won’t show up. I hope to introduce a feature in the next few days to deal with this - a form that lets you, the user, fix addresses that are broken. Until then, please bear with me.
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