Shared Planet

[belljar_noir]

During Freshers week I joined a society called People and Planet, which campaigns for action on Climate Change and other humanitarian issues eg. AIDS treatment for everyone who needs it.

This weekend I went to Shared Planet in London, a big get together of People and Planet groups from Unis and Sixth Forms all round the country. We got to listen to

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[fox388]

If you can think of a better way to burn fuel and so have more efficient power stations I'd love to hear it lol.
Combustion theory/electricity generation be a complex bit of maths. It would be far too expensive to supercool the conductors or something like that, and then no one could afford power!

Sounds like a shazaam weekend anyway! being an activist is fun! XD

[belljar_noir]

I think you might have mis-understood what I was trying to say (or I didn't explain very well lol).
I was just saying that at the moment the centralised power stations are very inefficient and if we had more smaller, local power stations we could utilise the heat produced to heat homes and businesses etc. therefore making the powers stations a lot more efficient. I didn't mean that we should try and cool down the existing power stations, because like you said, I don't think that would work.
Clearly this doesn't completely solve the problem of fossil fuels, so we would also need to burn biomass and make use of renewable energies.

[cement_sky]

Save the whales!

[belljar_noir]

Screw the whales. Save the people!!!

[hellzberry]

On my course we use chemicals which are harmful to the enviroment if put down the drain (so we put it into a canister which i presume is disposed of somehow) anyways, i forgot about this for a fraction of a second and tipped about a table spoon down the drain, as i was distracted reading the instructions of it's use... and i saw that someone had printed a tiny ikle picture of a whale next to the DO NOT DRAIN THIS and i nearly had a heart attack... spent the rest of the day feeling guilty and thought i'd killed a whale- until i was told that it's just a little bad and won't harm anything with the amount i tipped out... lol yeah dont know why i'm telling you this, but the SAVE THE WHALES! comment reminded me of my guilt.

[belljar_noir]

Lol I wouldn't worry about it too much. I do stuff everyday that I feel guilty about, you just have to try your best. It's really hard to be the prefect eco-friendly type person. =)