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"CO2 - Going Underground"

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  1. chdot
    Admin

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    Free event at Our Dynamic Earth, Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th July 10 till 4 everyday

    We all know that Britain needs to "clean up" its act and reduce the amount of CO2 emitted from our energy generation. But how do we do this, what is being done already, and what do you think about it?

    Come and take part in an interactive exhibit about the UK's energy options, design your own "clean energy strategy", and learn about Carbon Capture and Storage, an option for producing low carbon energy from fossil fuels.

    With an exciting mixture of games, hands on activities, and helpful scientists from the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage, how we capture CO2 from power stations, how it is securely stored deep underground, how geologists "look" and "listen" to the deep Earth to find out where to inject CO2, and put together your own energy plan for the UK.

    Hope to see you there!

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    Posted 14 years ago #

  2. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Carbon Sequestration and Storage sounds great, but strikes me as nothing more than a way to bury heads in the sand. The whole emphasis these days is on averting catastrophic climate change, global warming, global dimming, episodic weather events and so on, but true sustainability is at the heart of the solution and so simple and so complex that no-one seems to think about it anymore, just as long as we can carry on buying and making and dumping, leaving it to clever scientists to try to tell us what needs to happen, and to people in sharp suits and Jaguars to tell us what they're doing about it.

    I really hope that the younger generation, in the face of iPods, iPads, iWantGetsNothing, switches on to the sustainable lifestyle messages.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    The problem is 'hyperconsumerism' ©LB Bikes 2005

    Sad to say many of us are part of it. I challenged my daughter to have a day without shopping as 'entertainment'. Problem is that the mobile devices are also powerful 'shopping tools'. The iPad will certainly be able to 'shop faster' than other smaller devices. Once upon a time having a Mac was to enhance creativity.

    But wait...

    Someone just booked a tour on my bikes using such a device. So I'm as bad as the rest :-(

    I've never owned a car (that worked!) but seem to take a cubic metre of packaging to recycling every week. Too much plastic with every meal courtesy of our supermarkets. I have written in to them and got the old 'if it isn't packed like this it will get crushed' argument.

    We did have an organic box but they drive miles to deliver which congests the roads...

    We do farmers market when we can.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  4. Kim
    Member

    'Hyperconsumerism', yes there have been over 146,952,751 computers sold this year, compared with 26,704,973 cars produced this year and 56,065,250 bicycles produced this year. Note these figures are already out of date, for up to date figures see here.

    Posted 14 years ago #

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