Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
George Monbiot, a journalist and activist, has proposed a 10 point plan to help us limit climate change by rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. While this will involve some changes in lifestyle, it will not be as radical as those changes that will be required if we don’t act now.
The general ideas can be [...]
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Posted on Friday 10th November 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged climate change, construction, energy, Engineering, environmental, future, Politics, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
The Times Online reports that… “Cyclists who wear helmets are more likely to be knocked off their bicycles than those who do not”
Research by Ian Walker, a traffic psychologist, indicates that drivers give a wider margin to those cyclists they perceive to be less-able—those without helmets, or lycra. Whether this holds true across the country [...]
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Posted on Tuesday 12th September 2006 in Engineering tagged cycling, Engineering, Links, with no comments.
Another scheme to overcomplicate the charging of services in the name of promoting recycling is being discussed on the BBC News website: BBC NEWS | UK | Bugged bins to promote recycling.
This is wrong for many reasons.
The main one being that the worst materials to landfill, plastics and polystyrene packaging, weigh next to nothing, so [...]
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Posted on Tuesday 5th September 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged Engineering, environmental, landfill, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
An article on the BBC NEWS states that Rubbish collection ‘may be taxed’:
The proposals could allow councils to charge residents for the amount of waste they produce, and other possibilities include charging less to greener households and those who separate their waste.
What they don’t seem to have considered is that this will just increase the [...]
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Posted on Friday 16th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged Engineering, environmental, landfill, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
BP may now be using the slogan[1] “Beyond Petroleum”, but that does not mean they are reducing the amount of oil they are extracting, just how they are carefully using ‘spin’ to make people believe that. Another very insightful article by George Monbiot: Still Drilling, which is well worth reading whether you’re an [...]
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Posted on Tuesday 13th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged Engineering, environmental, peak_oil, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
