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Chopsticks and traffic power bid for design award
A new chopstick and Traffic-Power a way of creating electricity through traffic noise are two of the ideas bidding for a £17,000 Scottish design award.
The St Andrews Prize is given for innovative but practical solutions to environmental problems.
Apart from cash, the winner will get the support of a network of environmental
experts, while two runners up will receive a smaller amount of money.
British forestry worker Robert Simpson, who works in Japan, believes aluminium cans could cut down the number of trees used by the chopstick industry.
He says cans could be melted down into tubes which grip a two inch, disposable piece of wood for eating with.
Meanwhile, Lee Moore, a geophysical data processing consultant in Colorado, believes the sound waves produced by traffic could generate "Traffic-power".
He argues the Traffic-power system would provide a source of energy which produces no extra pollution.
All entries submitted before 30 October 2001 will be considered and a number will be short-listed.
Those people with the best ideas will be invited to the University of St Andrews in May next year to present their submissions to the St Andrews Prize Panel which decides the winner. |
