did you know
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DID YOU KNOW…
DID YOU KNOW
• That It Takes a Banana Peel 3-4 weeks to decompose
DID YOU KNOW • That Duke Energy has a US
generating capacity of 36,000 megawatts or 1,200,000,000 fluorescent light bulbs
• 36,000 MW x 10^6) / 30
DID YOU KNOW• Like Duke Energy Gustave Eiffel saw the
importance of safety and in the construction of the Eiffel tower only 1 worker out of the 300 died thanks to the guard rails and safety screens in place
DID YOU KNOW
• That 30% of all bulk material waste is paper products
DID YOU KNOW• That Sherman Poppen, one of three people
credited with the snowboard's invention, was an engineer. In the mid-1960s, Poppen bolted two skis together and attached a rope for balance and steering so his daughter could ride down a hill standing up.
WHAT IS IT
WHAT IS ITBEFORE AFTER
WHAT IS IT
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes a Paper Bag 1 monthto decompose
DID YOU KNOW
• That is takes Cardboard 2 months
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes a Wool Sock 1 yearto decompose
DID YOU KNOW
• 70% of garbage and waste in land fills can be recycled
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes Disposable Diapers 550 years to decompose
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes an Aluminum Can 200-500 years (But if recycled, it can be reused within 6 weeks!)
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes a Plastic Bag 20-1000 years to decompose
DID YOU KNOW• That for every 10-percent
increase in problem complexity, there is a 100-percent increase in the software solution’s complexity.
DID YOU KNOW
• That it takes Styrofoam:
1+ million years
WHAT IS IT
WHAT IS IT
DID YOU KNOW
• Glass never decomposes
DID YOU KNOW• That the word engineering comes
from the latin word ingeniummeaning to be ingenious.