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London 2012 Olympics: golden torch revealed

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London 2012 Olympic Games organisers have revealed the Olympic torch, which resembles an expensive, designer cheesegrater, but have admitted defeat in their attempts to make it as energy efficient as possible.



Despite tremendous efforts to make the flame of the torch energy efficient as possible, London organising committee chairman Seb Coe said today: ''We didn't get there''.



Coe said the organisers ran out of time to incorporate a flame using less carbon, developed from a fuel based on elephant grass, but that the work behind the scenes to use green energy would benefit future Olympic Games hosts.



Shaun McCarthy, chairman of he Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 (the body overseeing the ''green'' claims of the Games) said such an excuse was unacceptable.



“We respect the need to make sure that any solution must be 100 per cent safe and reliable, but we are disappointed that Locog and their partner EDF Energy have failed in their objective to deliver a low-carbon Olympic torch.



''The carbon contribution of this initiative may have been relatively small, but the power of the message across the globe would have been highly significant. The Olympic torch is a universal symbol of the Games, and a low-carbon torch would have been an unequivocal demonstration of London’s commitment to a truly sustainable Games.



Rest of article with pictures: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...ndon-2012-Olympics-golden-torch-revealed.html
 
Can't they just use a LED light instead?
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To be honest, it does look like a huge ugly cheesegrater to me.
 
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