Mixing materials such as wood chips, sunflower husks or grasses with coal to generate electricity could reduce the power station's annual carbon dioxide emissions by several million tonnes.
But we're watching the staff and the sparse audience – the lonely cashier wandering the upstairs corridors, the punter idly flicking sunflower husks at the screen, the gay men cruising the toilets.
A second unit being converted to biomass – sustainable forestry remains as well as waste such as straw and sunflower husks – is on track to start operations in the summer, with the third due sometime in 2016.
It is viewed as the ultimate in social humor at Ice Hockey games in Alberta to eject your husk into the anorak hood of the spectator in front of you throughout the game and then follow them out to the icy wasteland, doubling as a car park, and watch as they flick their hood up, covering their mullet (all Albertans still maintain one) in a mixture of sunflower husks and lumberjack spittle.
— Don't all those sunflower husks drive you nuts? (a little).
Biological materials such as algae, bacteria, fungi, yeast and agricultural waste products like water hyacinth, sunflower stalk, coconut coir pith, rice husk and grape stalk waste have been recognized as cheap natural sorbents for the removal of toxic metals (Anirudhan and Unnithan 2007; Alvarado et al. 2008; Malik et al. 2009; Yeneneh et al. 2011).
Wet sunflower seed husks are incredibly slippy.
What you need to understand is that the sunflower seed husks are spat out by the eater, resulting in an attractive pile of shells around his feet.
Developers will be encouraged to reuse pilings and other materials already on site and to specify that recycled material and products made from renewable resources, like fast-growing trees and sunflower seed husks, be used for interior and insulating materials.
Furnishings are made of everything from recycled maple to recycled seat belts, while bathroom stall partitions are made of recycled plastic bottles, and elevator paneling of sunflower seed husks.
