LEDs use less power than regular bulbs. However now you can buy a number of lamps, which use customized LEDs for the light. Specific sizes and shapes. Which means that if the LED fails, it can't be replaced and you need a whole new lamp.
Because we are buying it, they have less used cooking oil to use on the things that they were previously using it for," said Greg Archer with Transport & Environment.
"And they're just buying more virgin oil and that virgin oil is largely palm oil, because that's the cheapest oil available.
"So indirectly, we're just encouraging more deforestation in Southeast Asia."
Who, indeed?What could possibly go wrong with burning food in car engines? Well as demand grows for biodiesel, deforestation increases to provide it. Who could ever have predicted such an outcome?
Yes, it should only have ever been about recycling waste.The whole point, originally, for using vegetable oil was, it was suppised to be from waste, not produced specicically for biodiesel. The palms that the harvest the palm oul from are incredibly bad for the enviroment as their life cycle does not last long enough to reduce any carbon in the atmosphere, in Borneo it is the main cause of deforestation and loss of habit for the Orangutan.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/...MIzt-X_fOO8AIV24BQBh0l4garEAAYAiAAEgJ6JfD_BwE
A stupid box-ticking exercise.(Slightly old report from December 2020 but still current, developing technology)
The F1 governing body, The FIA, are pushing ahead with increased amounts of 'biofuel' for F1.
This is with an aim for the use of a fully sustainable 'net zero' fuel from 2030 onwards.
I guess that all they then need to do is run all of their trucks and support vehicles on it, and all of the jet aircraft used to get to each race.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-develops-100-sustainable-fuel-from-bio-waste-4976196/4976196/#:~:text=The push for sustainable fuel,contribute to a greener planet.
Yes indeed.A stupid box-ticking exercise.
It may be enviromentally friendly but from the few races i have seen it has no soul, its like watching giant scalectrixi did however enjoy the first Extreme E cross country race.That's why I like Formular e, they are looking at ways to reduce their impact overall, not just by using the electric cars
https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/discover/sustainability/measuring-our-impact
I haven’t watched an FE race but the commentators would have to go some to sound more enthusiastic than Murray Walker.I tried watching a few formula E races but they didn't grab me.
The ones on 'proper' racetracks seemed woefully slow.
The ones on circuits laid out in 'alternative' places (street circuits, parkland courses etc) just had the feeling of watching lads racing around a car park.
And they all seemed to have the feeling of an attempt by the commentators and race promoters to sound over-enthusiastic about the whole shebang, which is always a turn-off me for me.
As in, he sounded like his trousers were on fire.
“Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.”
— Clive James
- Though to be fair, he was a tank commander in WW2 and participated in the battle for the Reichswald, so it's entirely possible that - at some point or another - his trousers had been on fire.
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That sent me down a rabbit hole! Reading about General Horrocks after he became Black Rod:
On other occasions, because the Black Rod had to remain in place during long debates, Horrocks relieved his boredom by completing football pools coupons. This had the advantage of looking like note-taking to the assembled lords.[114] Horrocks held the post of Black Rod until 1963
This morning I saw, on Yahoo News*, a very recent case of a woman who owned land and lived in a large caravan. She submitted plans and requested planning permission to replace it with a self-built eco-friendly log cabin. She'd been told she didn't need permission. It was designed to be pretty much self-sustaining, with heat pumps, water filtration, professional waste management. Everything a council would expect to be paid to do.
Once built, the council received 4 complaints (one from someone who lived over a mile away) and then the local council (I think it's in Wiltshire) decided that she needed permission and that her build was oversized to her submitted plans. She's now been threatened to either tear it down or face prosecution.
From the photos it was a gorgeous bungalow, very professionally made and even the local Tory MP has become involved, confirming that the build was exactly as stated in the plans. Seems that the council want her to cave in to cover-up their own mistake and I recall part of their issued statement is that "XYZ council is determined to make available sustainable and ecologically-friendly housing for all".
Hmmm. So that'd be the houses built by their chums, the property developers?
* Strange to say, I can't find the news item online now.
I grate my teeth whenever I hear of vexatious complaints from people who aren't affected by somebody doing a self-build.This morning I saw, on Yahoo News*, a very recent case of a woman who owned land and lived in a large caravan. She submitted plans and requested planning permission to replace it with a self-built eco-friendly log cabin. She'd been told she didn't need permission. It was designed to be pretty much self-sustaining, with heat pumps, water filtration, professional waste management. Everything a council would expect to be paid to do.
Once built, the council received 4 complaints (one from someone who lived over a mile away) and then the local council (I think it's in Wiltshire) decided that she needed permission and that her build was oversized to her submitted plans. She's now been threatened to either tear it down or face prosecution.
From the photos it was a gorgeous bungalow, very professionally made and even the local Tory MP has become involved, confirming that the build was exactly as stated in the plans. Seems that the council want her to cave in to cover-up their own mistake and I recall part of their issued statement is that "XYZ council is determined to make available sustainable and ecologically-friendly housing for all".
Hmmm. So that'd be the houses built by their chums, the property developers?
* Strange to say, I can't find the news item online now.