Airplot is a scheme dreamt up by Greenpeace to scupper plans for a third runway at Heathrow. They've bought up land on the planned site (not quite on the runway itself, but near) and will refuse to sell it. I think the idea is that everyone named as a co-tenant/owner of the land will have to be approached by the Government when it comes time to start buying up the land, making the job particularly hard.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Chorlton Green Festival
Chorlton Green Festival was on Saturday. It was overcast but didn't rain in the end, luckily for all the stalls that were outside. I chatted to Friends of the Earth and the local Green Party, blagged quite a few goodies and picked up a few leaflets.
Practical Cycles had a load of interesting bikes.
Manchester Free Software gave me a Linux boot disk. I may soon be in the position to det up a Linux box, if only to re-learn how to use it.
Little Valley Brewery had many interesting beers, but I didn't think midday drinking, and potential falling off my bike, was such a good idea.
There are more pictures on Flickr.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Feed in tariffs on Radio 4
Costing the Earth on Radio 4 today examined the feed in tariff, which should become available with the new tax year, and the economics of buying yourself a windmill or solar panels. You can listen to it through iPlayer.
Normally listen and watch again programmes on the BBC site expire within a week, but this one says it's okay until January of 2099.
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Normally listen and watch again programmes on the BBC site expire within a week, but this one says it's okay until January of 2099.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Nuclear reactors that eat their own waste
I'm not keen on it, but I think nuclear power will have to be part of any low to no carbon future. There's a lot of other stuff that should be done before going nuclear, but that's another post.
The design of reactors which burn up most of their radioactive waste has to be a step in the right direction. As the article points out there are still a lot of other ethical and physical problems with the technology, but reducing the amount of stuff which has to be buried for millions of years is a good step in anyone's book.
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The design of reactors which burn up most of their radioactive waste has to be a step in the right direction. As the article points out there are still a lot of other ethical and physical problems with the technology, but reducing the amount of stuff which has to be buried for millions of years is a good step in anyone's book.
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