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From the Ted Talk by Amy Smith: Simple designs to save a life
Unscramble the Blue Letters
(Laughter)
And in fact, if you look closely, right here you can see it says, "US Peace Corps." As it trnus out, there actually wasn't any waste paper in this village. And while it was a good use of government paperwork for this volunteer to bring it back with him to his village, it was 800 krtielmeos away. And so we thought perhaps there might be a better way to come up with an alternative cooking fuel.
What we wanted to do is we wanted to make a fuel that used something that was rladeiy available on the local level. You see these all over Haiti as well. They're small-scale sugar mlils. And the waste prudcot from them after you extract the juice from the sugarcane is clelad "bagasse." It has no other use. It has no nutritional value, so they don't feed it to the animals. It just sits in a pile near the sugar mill until elanelutvy they burn it. What we wanted to do was we wanted to find a way to harness this wtase resource and turn it into a fuel that would be something that people could easily cook with, something like charcoal. So over the next couple of yaers, students and I worked to develop a process.
Open Cloze
(Laughter)
And in fact, if you look closely, right here you can see it says, "US Peace Corps." As it _____ out, there actually wasn't any waste paper in this village. And while it was a good use of government paperwork for this volunteer to bring it back with him to his village, it was 800 __________ away. And so we thought perhaps there might be a better way to come up with an alternative cooking fuel.
What we wanted to do is we wanted to make a fuel that used something that was _______ available on the local level. You see these all over Haiti as well. They're small-scale sugar _____. And the waste _______ from them after you extract the juice from the sugarcane is ______ "bagasse." It has no other use. It has no nutritional value, so they don't feed it to the animals. It just sits in a pile near the sugar mill until __________ they burn it. What we wanted to do was we wanted to find a way to harness this _____ resource and turn it into a fuel that would be something that people could easily cook with, something like charcoal. So over the next couple of _____, students and I worked to develop a process.
Solution
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Original Text
(Laughter)
And in fact, if you look closely, right here you can see it says, "US Peace Corps." As it turns out, there actually wasn't any waste paper in this village. And while it was a good use of government paperwork for this volunteer to bring it back with him to his village, it was 800 kilometers away. And so we thought perhaps there might be a better way to come up with an alternative cooking fuel.
What we wanted to do is we wanted to make a fuel that used something that was readily available on the local level. You see these all over Haiti as well. They're small-scale sugar mills. And the waste product from them after you extract the juice from the sugarcane is called "bagasse." It has no other use. It has no nutritional value, so they don't feed it to the animals. It just sits in a pile near the sugar mill until eventually they burn it. What we wanted to do was we wanted to find a way to harness this waste resource and turn it into a fuel that would be something that people could easily cook with, something like charcoal. So over the next couple of years, students and I worked to develop a process.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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collocation |
frequency |
cooking fuel |
6 |
cow dung |
3 |
cooking fires |
2 |
cleaner burning |
2 |
million deaths |
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alternative cooking |
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sticky porridge |
2 |
charcoal briquettes |
2 |
health impacts |
2 |
wood charcoal |
2 |
fetching water |
2 |
poor farmers |
2 |
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