Noticed this on my way to a meeting today: some roads around Tokyo are getting their surfaces redone with a kind of asphalt that traps rainwater.
What’s the point? Well as you know, asphalt is a rather heat-absorbing material, which means it is not a very good thing to have all around you during summer. So the Japanese have figured out a way of trapping rainwater inside the top 10cm or so of the asphalt surface on roads, without making the road too slippery. When that trapped rainwater evaporates, evaporative cooling naturally cools down the road surface.
Very neat.
KA361, NRT-HKG, December 9 15:30 (UTC+9) - 18:55 (UTC+8)
CX418, HKG-ICH, December 11 14:00 (UTC+8) - 18:30 (UTC+9)
CX411, ICH-HKG, December 15 15:20 (UTC+9) - 18:15 (UTC+8)
All three CJK countries within two weeks.
KA360, Hong Kong -> Tokyo, December 4 07:50 (UTC+8) - 12:25 (UTC+9)
Yes, that means I miss out on the march. Again.
Speaking of the march, Apple Daily is once again trying to get as many people to go on the streets as possible during the past week, culminating with today’s headline, “For Our Next Generation’s Tomorrow, Go On Street Today”, together with a “I Want To See Universal Suffrage” banner.
Really he is. By using prime time TV to address everybody, even people who were disinterested in political reform are now very clear of the issues involved in the debate.
Very effectively, he reminded everybody to go march on Sunday.
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