Manufacturers and retailers of 'green' products should be allowed to place product advertisements on car doors and bonnets. For each car they 'personalise' a percentage of the payment should go to the government with the remainder being set-off against the car owner's road tax.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Friday 16 October 2009
Higher Education.
An ex-student has been to visit me. She went away to University for the first time at the end of September and is now back home for a 'reading week'. The total contact time she will have with her tutors upon return is approximately 3.5 hours per week. Her friend (different university, different course) has the intellectually demanding timetable of 1.45 hours per week. This is a scandal.
Instead of making us work longer at the end of our career, why don't we start earlier? Degrees should be cut to two years. The majority of graduates would then begin their tax earning life a year earlier and there would presumably be more of them than would normally be expected to be alive 40 years later. I'm sure this would be hugely beneficial to the Treasury - can someone work out the maths and get back to me?
Don't even get me going on postgraduate degrees . . .
Friday 9 October 2009
Global Warming
Global warming: I know what you're thinking - 'this is going to be boring'. Well, pack it in. Global warming is something that will have an impact on ALL of us and it's time that those of us thinking outside the normal limits of human curiosity started to come up with some flipping BIG ideas.
Now, I'm no expert on this, so I'm counting on others to actually do the fiddly maths. But I reckon this is worth serious consideration.
Right. Approx 10% of the UK is urbanised. Right? It should be LAW (yes, LAW) that all new builds be constructed with brilliant white glass reinforced plastic roofs. Gradually we could get students (this is where the idea links into my thinking on higher education), we get students, ok, to clad all urban area roofs in the same GRP material.
Result - 10% of the suns rays get bounced back to deep space. Or, if we fancied the idea (note to self, link this to defence thinking) we could direct the rays to a big reflecting satellite that would then bounce them back down to France.
Someone do the maths on this, quick. We have no time to loose.
Now, I'm no expert on this, so I'm counting on others to actually do the fiddly maths. But I reckon this is worth serious consideration.
Right. Approx 10% of the UK is urbanised. Right? It should be LAW (yes, LAW) that all new builds be constructed with brilliant white glass reinforced plastic roofs. Gradually we could get students (this is where the idea links into my thinking on higher education), we get students, ok, to clad all urban area roofs in the same GRP material.
Result - 10% of the suns rays get bounced back to deep space. Or, if we fancied the idea (note to self, link this to defence thinking) we could direct the rays to a big reflecting satellite that would then bounce them back down to France.
Someone do the maths on this, quick. We have no time to loose.
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