News: 3 days to go!
The deadline for entering the Big Green Challenge is fast approaching - applications must be in by 11.59pm on Monday 3 March.
Remember that there’s a £1 million prize fund to reward the finalists who perform best against our criteria, so make sure you submit your entry on time. Good luck!
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I have submitted the plans of the Weoley Hill Village (which is a residents’ organisation, not a tenants organisation)(Birmingham) project, but I am not able to continue with the application. I know there are sections uncompleted, Please, help,
Wiebina Heesterman
Hi Wiebina, please call the Big Green Challenge helpline on 020 7566 1465 - they’ll be able to help you with any problems or questions about the application process.
All our power requirements are for lighting, heating, transport, and energy for such things as industry on down to exercise machines.
The lighting can be zero rated by building Buxton Geothermal Power Stations (BGTGs) which use the heat of the earth at depth by drilling ten kilometre deep holes.
The heating can be near-zero rated by installing Starlite coatings, which can prevent heat leaks at 1300 degrees C from a blow torch, on the walls and ceilings of all premises.
By having electrical heating from BGTGs we cut heating emissions to zero.
Transport can be made near-zero in terms of carbon emissions by ensuring that all vehicles use BGTG electricity.
The only difficulty we have in aeroplanes and shipping. However, their carbon footprints can be at least halved by having their fuels mixed permanently with water using an ultrasonic dibber. Finally, the power needed for energy can be made entirely of BGTG electricity.
New ways of making industry work using electricity instead of the gas that they presently use will be needed, but these are not insurmountable problems given that the Governments of the world have until 2016 to achieve the target.
Reversing the Damage Done Already by Industrialisation
I once muted the possibility that sufficiently large Buxton Geothermal Power Stations could power gigantic freezer units at both Poles so that the melting of the ice caps could be reversed and then maintained. This will be necessary to reduce the heating of the planet caused from the beginning of industrialisation up until all countries become near-zero carbon countries. (which should be within the next ten years.)
Funding for the Near-Zero Plan
‘The Ecologist’ magazine estimates the true cost of mental illness to the UK is £100 billion per year. When all patients suffering from mental illness are passed on to their trained local practice nurse for a thirty second cure using the Kadir-Buxton Method then we have immediate and massive savings.(The alternative of expensive drugs which, in trials, have less success than no treatment at all, should be made a thing of the past). The money saved by the UK would clean up CO2 emissions in the UK using the above plan. It is also easy to adapt it to any other country.