President Obama is going to the Copenhagen Climate Conference and better still,

China has announced that she is ‘on the case’ as well.

Yes, this is Thanksgiving Day.  Give thanks for the fact that both of the World’s

 worst polluters have seen the light!  Or maybe it is just all politics. Time will tell.

I learned about osmosis the hard way.  When I was a child we went for a countyside picnic.  Thisbright spark thought it would be a good idea to put salt in the sandwiches before we left.  This, I thought would save the lettuce in them getting squashed.  WRONG! the lettuce was soggy and disgusting.  That is how I learned about osmosis.  The salt dissolved in the moisture of the surface of the lettuce and drew out the purer water from inside the lettuce leaf. Result – that soggy mess. The strong solution (salt) had passed through the semi-permeable membrane *(Leaf surface) into the weak solution inside the leaf.  * for semi-permeable, think of a cheap raincoat that lets through half the rain water!

That’s the lesson finished for today.  Norway has come up with a way to use the ’soggy lettuce’ method, osmosis to generate free electricity.  Early days, but at least they aren’ sitting on their backsides doing nothing like some ‘developed ‘nations.  Want to read more?

Unlike most of the Western World, Scandinavia has always looked forward and planned.  Maybe because of their more austere climate.  here is a link to the Reuters report that I’ve been reading.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

You will see that some people do not spare others comments with their opinions.

ecoanne

Not happy with this, we are likely to have to face this in our own neighbourhoods.  I can envisage  ’Shower Police’ knock ing at my door instead of Mormons.  Shower Police would inspect home to check if the bath had been used when you have traded X Litres of water. Well now, before the police knock on my door,  I’m signing off -  for good.

When I started this blog people  didn’t believe that Climate Change was happening.  That has changed so I shall find a happy topic to blog about.  So it’s good bye and good luck to the thousands of you who have visited my blog.

A Dying Breed

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I’m in the East Riding of Yorkshire.  Untill this afternoon

 our soil was parched and rain butt nearly empty.  I seem

 to remember a warning of a hot summer this year.  As we

 sit here shivering we must remember this is Global Warming!

Now that our US friends have had a change of president and

 people are allowed to acknowledge climate change, I’m going

 to try to lighten up this blog .  Anyone who would like to be a

 guest blogger,  please get in touch.  Also, if there are any topics

environmental that you would like explained or maybe

 investigated,  I will do my best for you my friends.

Prof Murray said: “With many glaciers experiencing rapid thinning, time is of the essence in discovering the effects of these drastic changes.

It will allow researchers to convert vast amounts of scientific data on temperatures in thousands of locations into meaningful images, leading to better interpretation of the results.

According to the university, the icing on the cake is that the computer’s operation has also been specifically designed to be energy efficient.

Blue Ice is housed in a new “green” data centre and boasts energy efficient computer processing units which provide high performance computing within a small carbon footprint.

The computer, the latest from the series of IBM “blue” series, one of the first of which defeated Kasparov in 1997, can now make two trillion calculations per second.

Surrounded by a spectacular visualisation suite, the surprisingly small supercomputer will try to help Welsh scientists understand one of the most worrying modern climate trends: the thinning of polar ice sheets.

To read the full article please visit  BLUE ICE

PS. Blue ice is the term given to the ice which is melting at the toe of a glacier.  This ice appears blue. I’ll try to hunt out a picture for you.

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As rain dripped off the clothes line I thought of clothes pegs and another quick saving tip.  Do you use plastic clips to close poly bags for the fridge?  I don’t, I use plastic clothes pegs.  They are just as good, a fraction of the price and very versatile.  Try it your self.

For even bigger savings try Powertune Energy Saver and be amazed.