SIX tonnes of elephant tusks and ivory trinkets were destroyed in a tarmac crusher in the factory city of Dongguan in China on January 6th.
(There is some reasonable suspicion that drives which are zeroed out this way, even a number of times, may still contain data that are recoverable by wily corporate or government spooks).Devices which obstinately refuse to spit out all data meet the crusher.
BHP plans to move a crusher and concentrator plant now sitting on several acres of ore that was once reckoned too low-grade to be worth mining.
Kevin Keniston, the new head of passenger comfort, points out that "other manufacturers" have started reverting to the 17-inch "crusher" seats that were found on airliners of the 1950s.
The entire plant process includes ROM storage, raw coal storage, crusher house, screening plants, various slurries (coal-water mixtures), dewatering system, thickeners, thermal dryer, process-water systems, clean-coal storage, clean-coal load-out system, monitoring and process-control system, and refuse-disposal system.
By the early years of the 19th century, however, the American inventor Oliver Evans had built a stationary high-pressure steam engine for driving a rotary crusher to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural use.
In 1801 he built in Philadelphia a stationary engine that turned a rotary crusher to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural purposes.
Lacking a crusher, I thumped them a few times with a wooden spoon in the shaker, added the ingredients and served.
From there, the "harvest", as some call it, is further processed in a crusher – an industrial tumble-drier hooked up to a generator that operates at ear-bursting volume.
A week later, he was ordered to pour 3,500 small air freshener canisters into a mechanical crusher.
"I was a chronic crusher, totally boy crazy, from when I was tiny," she laughs.
