INVENTIONS  NEWS

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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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 Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at Qantas In Flight Magazine.