Incredible Bamboo

Dell CEO Michael Dell unveiled a "never before seen" eco-inspiredcomputer with a bamboo casing at the Fortune Green conference in April
2008. The computer is 81 percent smaller than a standard desktop, uses
70 percent less power and is filled with recycled materials like old
bottles, milk jugs and detergent cases. While Dell wouldn't give the
name of the bamboo box, he said the product would come out later this
year and would likely range in price betwen $500 and $700.

The more I read about Bamboo, the more I feel that it is the most
incredible natural resource we have available to us today. It is fast
growing, hardy, is found everywhere on Earth”s temperate and tropical
zones. But most important, Bamboo is the perfect eco-friendly raw
material for construction ' its tensile strength is equal to, or more
than that of steel!

DID YOU KNOW?

*Bamboo is actually a giant grass, and not wood. It can grow as much as four feet in 24 hours!

*It is so hardy, that bamboo was the only living thing on Ground Zero to survive the Hiroshima atomic blast!

*In 1854, Henricg Globel, a German watchmaker made the first true light
bulb. He used a carbonised bamboo filament inside a glass bulb. In
1879, Thomas Alva Edison too used bamboo splits as filaments, working
with bamboo obtained from Japan. The bamboo filament tended to last
about forty hours before burning out.
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