Renewable Energy in Schools

[mrforgetful]

My outlook on it is - we can comfortably live and work by doing things like turning off equipment, using energy efficient equipment, using public transport (not the pendalino trains though, they're just as bad as cars in terms of emissions), installing some form of personal renewable energy source and being with a decent power company. These are very minor things for the average person and won't cost them more than a couple of percent of their income per year - as most of the initial costs are offset by savings due to running.

 

I agree and I do the small things, not having a car though? Not going that far. I like the convenience and I like my day trips to Whitby, on the train it takes 8 hours lol.

 

The Earth has always had natural ups and downs, it's still heating up from the last Ice Age. It's speeded up but it look at the previous times and it always does.

 

Maybe the Government's keen because it can charge us more taxes...hey who called me a cynic?

[localzuk]

Tax what? The production of electricity via our own equipment? I don't see what can be taxed...

[mrforgetful]

Tax what? The production of electricity via our own equipment? I don't see what can be taxed...

 

Petrol.

[Irazmus]

I'm just not a big taker of the energy saving drive, sure do your bit but Human Created Global Warming? Not buying it.

 

Hello Jeremy I can see your point, but I disagree. We didn't create global warming, that would be egotistical to think. What we have done is speed up the process of global warming via our emissions.

 

There are other theories regarding the causes of Global Warming:

 

Implications in Global Warming?

 

It has been postulated that this is the real reason for both global warming since higher energy levels of the Milky Way are almost certain to cause our Sun to burn hotter and emit higher energies. Indeed, temperatures have been seen to rise on virtually all the planets in our system. This seems quite apart from any local phenomenon like greenhouse gases etc.

 

Not that the quote makes a great deal of sense without reading the link ^^;

[enjay]

My outlook on it is - we can comfortably live and work by doing things like ... using public transport.

I would love to ditch my car and use public transport rather than sit in traffic queues, however the cost of public transport in Reading where I live is ridiculous.

 

£1.50 flat fare regardless of where you're going or how far it is (£2.50 return though) and nearly all buses run to the town centre and back, so most journeys involve two buses in each direction. That means that my daily bus ride to work would cost a fiver!! You can buy passes which are much cheaper, but even that would set me back nearly £600 per year, £1200 when you factor in my wife's journey to work too. Our TOTAL monthly expenditure on petrol is less than the cost of a one-month bus pass!

 

As the passes are all for a given period and not x many trips (as they were where I used to live) they are useless for the occasional trips into town on a Saturday or whatever. So for those journeys, my wife and I must each buy a £2.50 return (plus fares for any children) - we could park in the city centre multi-storey for something like 4 hours for the same money!

 

If the Government/local council want us to use public transport, they have to make it viable.

 

Rant over!

[dave.81]

LOL... the public transport issue makes me laugh everytime it's brought up... you lot that live in towns are able to use it, ok not cheap or nice but it's there... try living in the southwest, especially devon/cornwall there isn't any.

[localzuk]

I do live in the south west... The public transport down here is by no means perfect (eg. there could do with being later busses to taunton and back from Minehead) but it is quite good. Ok, public transport is useless if you live in the middle of exmoor but that serves you right

[dave.81]

The village i live in there is one bus a day to the nearest town, which you could then try and catch the few trains to Plymouth. As for public transport for work not a hope.

[localzuk]

Well, the answer is to not live out in the middle of nowhere and then have to travel to work...

[Guest Guest]

I live in the biggest private housing estate in *europe* and we dont have adiquate public transport.

 

For a long time i coulnt even get a job because of it! Thank feck i have a car now or else id still be struggling to find work.

[localzuk]

Where abouts is that? What do you mean by not having adequate public transport? What do you have?

[Geoff]

What do you mean by not having adequate public transport? What do you have?

I'd guess inadequate public transport?

[localzuk]

*Explodes in laughter* I mean, what is the provision? What are the problems? Are buses hourly, half hourly? When is the first in the morning, and the last at night etc... What exactly does he mean by inadequate?

[Guest Guest]

Well im not sure now but last time i checked;

 

8am first bus

4.30pm last bus - therefore to get to and from work you needed a job which was 10-4 assuming you worked *in* the town and didnt need to get another bus.

 

More often than not buses didnt even turn up anyway, in the winter months forget it.

 

Most of the time hourly

 

Only 2 destinations

 

My sisters *school bus* started knocking them back and they also took off the service bus which went near her school - she couldnt get to school without a lift, and she wernt the only one, FAR from it.

 

The roads were extreamly inadiquate aswell. Used to take me upto 4 hours to get to college! And we are only talking 6-7miles away.

 

 

If i didnt have a car, i wouldnt have a job, simple as that really. BTW i dont live out in the sticks or anything.

[localzuk]

It does sound like the bus company in your area has screwed up the services for some reason. It makes little sense to remove bus services from a large housing estate...

 

Have you considered cycling? If you were only travelling 6 - 7 miles it wouldn't take you long at all.

[Geoff]

Weird, we have the opposite problem around here. Bus wars:

 

http://www.lep.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=73&articleid=2988638

http://www.lep.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=73&articleid=2993022

[Guest Guest]

Have you considered cycling? If you were only travelling 6 - 7 miles it wouldn't take you long at all.

 

lmao feck that! I was at college, partying, working after college and on a weekend. Like i could be assed riding to college when everyone else is on a free bus! lol

 

Couldnt have riden the way the bus went anyway as it goes down a back lane which would have been lethel in the dark. The long way round would have been a trek!

 

Dont matter now anyhow as i have a car and am safe in the knowledge that i am doing my bit to make this country a little bit warmer

[Andrew_C]

Buses.... Grrr! 7:30 for a 9 start, last one home 4:30. Hopeless!

 

 

Back to renewbles. Surely the biggest impact that a schools energy policy (or lack of) is going to have is on the attitude of the kids? If they see investigation into new technology actually happening in their environment they might just take a bit of that with them into their future. If they are roasted in the winter in rooms with no heating control and the windows wide open, they will think "Stuff it, why should I worry? School doesn't and they know everything!"

[Guest Guest]

...and they know everything!"

 

Who ever said that!