101 Ways To Help Save The Planet
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indeed, tis a paradox.
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End war, which will bring down production of weaponry and army maintainence and spend the money on renewable energy sources - it can be done.
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*NB: not deliberately trying to offend anyone on the forum who smokes but...*
If you added up all those little fires that people light on a regular basis, I wonder how big the fire would be, and what kind of impact on the environment that would have? Just something I thought about after the "enclosed public spaces" smoking ban that kicked in in Britain last year.
Jon Gibbins, dotjay.co.uk, accessibility.co.uk wiki.
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How many cigerettes would it take to power your car just to the shops and back? 
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| Phil Teare wrote: |
| How many cigerettes would it take to power your car just to the shops and back?
ʇol ɐ ǝʇınb :ɐ |
True!
Jon Gibbins, dotjay.co.uk, accessibility.co.uk wiki.
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A burning cigarette releases 5W of power, apparently. I thought it would be lower than that.
Assuming a standard 100W incandescent bulb gives off around 30W as useful light and 70W as heat, then 15 fags = 1 lightbulb in terms of waste power?
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Interesting in terms of power, but I wonder how much combined crap is given off into the atmosphere on an hourly basis, say compared to the use of vehicles. I'm sure that our vehicles are a much bigger offender.
I went to a firework display in November and thought "oh my, that giant bonfire is mightily warm, but what a waste in the name of Guy Fawkes"... That kind of thing really makes my think - do we really do enough to stop pumping horrible crap into our atmosphere? And to stop wasting valuable energy?
In much the same way, I got thinking about the percentage of people who smoke and what kind of contribution that makes. I'm guessing that it's not a great deal in comparison to other things, as I've never seen it mentioned as a concern.
Just an interesting and completely inoffensive thought from your friendly neighbourhood dotjay.
Jon Gibbins, dotjay.co.uk, accessibility.co.uk wiki.
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5w = 0.0067 bhp
my fairly average car = 140 bhp
= 20,888 cigs
I smoke maybe 1hrs (or less) a week and drive maybe 15 mins a week (I usually work from home).
So even my very minimal driving is more than five thousand times more wasteful re energy than my regrettable habit (I will quit, I will quite, I will quit....). I'm guessing.
re light bulbs: they tend to be on for a lot longer per day than anyone would smoke. Unnecessary lights tend to be left on for many hours. If you spent many hours per day smoking (excluding time spent inhaling air between drags), global warming is the least of you worries.
But I certainly don't want to stick up for the cancer sticks. They are just plain bad. (I doubt they will be of any significance in climate change though)
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I think they tried that a while back.
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25) The mostly British funded hydropower damns in Sri Lanka provide around 80% of the countries electricity. Can we not do the same in the uk?Johan De Silva / Portfolio
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| Johan007 wrote: |
| 25) The mostly British funded hydropower damns in Sri Lanka provide around 80% of the countries electricity. Can we not do the same in the uk? |
i would say that Sri Lanka probably has lower energy needs per head of population than the UK
generally we need to lower our energy needs and make better use of "renewable" sources and we need to get ride of the nimby's that oppose these schemes
| JackP wrote: |
| 7. Cull approximately 3.5 billion people to reduce the world population to a more sustainable level (okay, this one might be unpopular...!) |
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26) Fund Trevor Bayliss to invent more wind up... well, wind up anything really.
27) Ensure sys admins know how to do S3 standby power properly.
Jon Gibbins, dotjay.co.uk, accessibility.co.uk wiki.
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28 ) strip mine the Moon
Actually I have a bit of a theory on this...
You see no one fancied Mercuries much, for a long time. Its way too hot (boiling lead hot) and well, its small and dangerous, and even smells bad. But, if the moon has a bunch of He3 on its surface, from the relentless hypersonic solar winds, just think how concentrated it might be on Mercuries surface, is, I'm guessing, what the good folk behind NASA's purse strings might have been thinking when they funded the recent Mercury probes. Of course thats not the official line, but hey...
Imagine an off world fusion reactor, fueld by the he3, beaming Terra watts of energy back to earth to produce hydrogen, which can then be stored and transported like oil... nice no? What could possibly go wrong? Now if I can just get this flux capacitor to work...
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| Phil Teare wrote: |
| Now if I can just get this flux capacitor to work... |
... we could go back in time and tell da Vinci all about it so that he can invent it before it's all too late!
Jon Gibbins, dotjay.co.uk, accessibility.co.uk wiki.
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