...does anyone think it would be a good idea for a challenge to include one whereby contestants have to construct an 'environmentally friendly' device?? It could be a waterwheel to generate electricity, a wind turbine, or some sort of vehicle that runs on a waste product, like chip fat or engine oil.

Just a thought!

-- Charlie Pleydell (cpp@medphysics.leeds.ac.uk), December 05, 2000

Answers

You must have missed the "Windmill Coffee Grinders" episode.

-- Waddy Thompson (cthomp3851@aol.com), January 10, 2001.

In the true spirit of "recycling"....

It might be a good challenge to have the teams build something that could demolish a car. I don't just mean crushing it! I mean something that chops or grinds it up into very small pieces, and then separates them according to size or weight.

Just another crazy idea from my warped mind.

-- Brian Rivera (rivera@chopin.bme.ohio-state.edu), January 30, 2001.

Brian Coleman does lads under a deserted railway bridge then feeds them rats to keep them alive just long enough to do them again.

-- AIDS DOER (AIDS@AIDS.COM), March 02, 2004.