Australian Student wins international inventions
prize for extracting water from air
White Hat congratulates Ed Linacre, a design student
at Swinburne University of Technology, for winning the prestigious
international James Dyson Award for his invention of a system of
extracting water from the air in drought prone country and directing
it to the roots of plants.
Even if it hasn’t rained for months, the air still
contains some water vapour. In fact warm is capable of holding more
water vapour than cold air as anyone who has lived in the tropics
will know. When warm air comes in contact with a cold surface some
of the water vapour will condense, hence the misted-up windscreen on
a cold morning. Linacre’s invention uses solar panel to create power
to cool the air, extract the moisture and distribute it at root
level to to the crop. You can read a description of how it works
here.
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Building by Melbourne based international
architecture firm declared on of UK's top 10 building of the decade
White Hat congratulates Denton Corker Marshall on
their
Manchester Civil Justice Centre being declared by the
prestigious Blueprint magazine as one of the UK's top then buildings
of the decade. Australian architects, along with Australia's
engineers have an impact on contemporary world architectures and
building practices which is disproportionate to this country's
population. DCM have offices in Melbourne, Indonesia and the UK and
recently won the contract to design the new Stonehenge Visitors
Centre.
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
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