This quick TED talk sums up the basic issues around the big buck energy question right now- do we go nuclear or solely rely on a new generation of renewable energy sources in the UK?
One obstacle that this debate only briefly mentions is the public fear of proximity to a nuclear power plant.
This next clip from a Horizon documentary "Nuclear Nightmares" 2006 almost insanely feels like it should calm public fears to some extent; it implies that only 56 deaths can be directly attributed to the Chernobyl disaster. Does this imply that even a serious accident in a nuclear reactor would not seriously affect the surrounding population? If so, the unlikely event of an incident would have an even smaller impact in comparison with the suffering that the world's population is about to suffer from changing climates.
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Secret School Potential...
Somewhere in South London... an empty 70's school awaits it's inevitable renovation and gentrification.
Surely such an blunt iconic landscape can form the strong basis of something meaningful in the public realm and re-establish the heart of the community. A project I would love to explore.
Friday, 3 September 2010
The Oikos Project Southwark
Summer Voluntary Work // Junkitecture
"One man's rubbish is another man's treasure"
"I'm with you on that one in Southwark, it's rubbish." ENTIRELY MADE OF RUBBISH!!!
A salvaged stage set provides a horribly glitzy backdrop to the seating area in the 'jellyfish belly'
After cladding the scaffold frame with two vertical faces of pallets and one more to add a bit of shape, we clad yet again using sheet materials to keep inside dry. Having salvaged a London skyline set we turned it upside down in order to create an inverted skyline. It was semi-successful but leaves a lot to read into the facade in terms of the material's history.
Check out BLDG's recent post on a beautiful pallet pavilion.
Built with hundreds of identical and unscathed pallets this project has the ability to explore 'the geometric possibilities of the pallet crate'... using a bundle of damaged crates of different sizes as we did in Southwark doesn't allow this kind of precision architecture!
OR for a load of crap on how pallets will kill us and all of our children check this website
http://www.pallettruth.com/2010/07/would-you-let-your-child-sleep-on-a-wooden-pallet/
its always worth checking out both sides of an argument... however as far as I know there is no argument worth having here
I've used a few pallets next to my bed as a free table space. I'm not especially worried that toxins stored in this wood will kill me...
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