More efficient housing energy
As a result of the round table on the environment, many relating to energy, in the heart of public policy, devices are now available to individuals.
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Categories: Property Tags: Business/Finance, efficient, energy, Energy conservation, Environment, housing
Tour de France 2010
The 2010 Tour will be launched from the south side of Rotterdam, for a prologue time-trial. The launching pad will actually be set up in Zuidplein, from where the riders will move north.
The choice of Rotterdam, a vast urban centre with one million two hundred thousand inhabitants, is directly in keeping with the special start of the Tour in London in 2007. The proposed project – “Rotterdam and the Tour, a new energy” – seduced us. It fits into an overall policy that aims to an even bigger place for the bicycle in the city’s heart, while leaning on the popularity of the biggest cycling race in the world, the Tour de France. From the banks of the Thames to the biggest port in Europe: the same desire, the same will.
Categories: Events, Sport Tags: Belgium, Crédit Agricole, cycling, energy, Europe, France, Germany, Hospitality/Recreation, Italy, journalist, London, Luxembourg, Netherlands, queen, Rhine, Rotterdam, Spain, Thames, Tour de France, Wassenaar
Guess What This Is…
As far back as October 1992, the French Penal system has been castigated by the European Commission for Human Rights for the serious overcrowding. In 2005, during a 16-day visit to France, the then Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles said of a section of Paris’s La Santé prison, “In my whole life, apart from perhaps Moldova, I have never seen a center worse than that one.” But the overcrowding has worsened since former Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy ascended to the president’s office in May 2007, and brought his tough, law-and-order approach with him.
A report given by france24 in August this year stated that the French Prison system is broken after 80 prisoners had committed suicide in 2009 (to date). Dr Louis Albrand is leading a group of experts to look into the matter. Their report was expected in October.
Meanwhile, back in Britain, a report from the BBC (5 December 2007) quoted the Justice Secretary Jack Straw as stating that “Three “super-prisons” each housing about 2,500 offenders are to be built”
These recently issued photographs show details of just one of these “super prisons” recently completed.
In Prison all expenses are paid by the tax payer and no work is required. At work you get to pay all your expenses to go to work and they deduct tax from your salary to pay for the prison and the inmates.
Your family and friends are allowed to visit you when in prison. Whilst at work, you should not be talking to your family and friends.
If you behave well in prison, you may get time off. If you behave well at work, you may get more work.
Prisoners get three meals a day, for which they do not pay. If you can get a break for a meal at work, you have to pay for it yourself.
You spend the majority of your time in prison in a 10×10 cell. The majority of people at work are lucky if the get a 6×6 cubicle or office in which to spend time.
The prison guard will lock and un-lock all the doors for you. Many work places require that you carry a security card and you have to open the doors for yourself.
You may watch TV and play games whilst in prison. Playing games or watching TV whilst at work could get you fired.
In this prison you get your own toilet. At work you get to share a toilet with others, some of whom may pee on the seat.
Prison means that you get to spend time behind bars, whereas in work you can’t wait to get out and find a bar in which to spend time.
On the down side, in prison you may have to deal with sadistic wardens… at work they’re called Managers.
And people wonder why so many Refugees fleeing to Western Europe spend so much time and energy, taking so many risks, in an effort to get across the Channel to Britain.
Extreme Toilets in France
Living in France, you get used to the idea that toilet facilities are not always what you might expect. As many seasoned motorists will know, a trip down the autoroute will expose you to some of the extremes.
Categories: Environment, Utilities Tags: designer, energy, Environment, France, Human waste, Imperial College, London, Sanitation, Sewerage, Toilet, urban infrastructure, Viginia Gardiner, Virginia, Waste, Waste collection, Waste management, Water
Electrocute Pain Away
If you ever need an excuse to get out of D.I.Y. chores, print this out and leave it lying on the kitchen table…
One day, my friend Steve Cooper was drilling a hole in his living room so he could finally hang a picture that he’d bought about six months previously.
He made a note of the positions of all the sockets and light fittings, picked a spot away from all the wires, and got drilling.
Next thing he knew, there was an explosion of bright blue light, and he was thrown clear across the room. It turns out the electrics in his apartment were a right mess, with wires running all over the place.
Luckily, it propelled him away from the current, and his only injuries were minor burns to his hands.
But he swears something else happened to him that, at the time, seemed most unlikely…
Categories: Health Tags: 999, ache, arthritis, chair, electricity, Ellen White, emergency services, energy, internal communications, man-made solutions, microcurrent therapy, pain, rugby, satellite dish, sports injuries, Steve Cooper
A Healthy Body Matters
Introduction
Having a slim and healthy body is very much on people’s minds today. Most people think a healthy body is about being fit. In reality a healthy body is a combination of many factors, of which exercise is a small part. A healthy body is achieved not only with physical well-being but also with a healthy mental and spiritual attitude. The key to good health and a healthy body is directly related to what is put into that body and how the body is treated.
Categories: Health Tags: diabetes, eating disorder, eating disorders, energy, food, food groups, food restriction, healthy food, heart disease, low carbohydrate diets, obesity, unstoppable energy
Solar Thermal Plant
By turning a long line of mirrors, the first solar thermal plant in nearly twenty years was launched last week in Bakersfield, California. Unlike solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight into electricity, this power system will focus sunlight on tubes that contains water. The light heats the water, creating steam that is used to power turbines.
Solar energy
At full capacity, Kimberlina will generate 5 megawatts of power, enough for about 3,500 homes in Central California. Although this is a small amount of energy compared with other utility scale power plants, this plant will serve as a gateway for a much larger solar plant.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Ausra, the manufacturer of the solar panels announced a purchase agreement in November, 2007 for a solar power plant of 177 megawatts. Once completed, the Carrizo Plains solar plant in Central California will generate enough power for 120,000 homes.
Solar technology is especially well suited for the American Southwest where huge amounts of sunshine make this region rich with solar energy potential. Air conditioners are accountable for a large amount of the electric load and the highest electric demand corresponds with solar radiation.
Ausra is well known for their claim that the total US electricity load (day and night) could be generated in an area that is 92 miles by 92 miles. This is made possible by steam storage, consequently allowing solar plants to operate after the sun has set.