Shirt that's also an air guitar!

[Idiophreak]

LINK! (http://slashdot.org/articles/06/11/13/1128243.shtml)

[9point9]

Why didn't they do something useful with their time?

[play_boy_2000]

that is fricken awesome

[mrplow]

Why didn't they do something useful with their time?

What could possibly benefit mankind more than this?

[9point9]

Stopping global warming.

[donkeyhumper]

so... what is it you do again for a living 9.9?

[9point9]

I'm still looking for work, yes, but with good reason as a whole load of crap things has happened in my life over the last few months which I'd appreciate not having to talk about.

I could stop global warming, everyone would just have to do as they're told which is the problem. Most people still seem to think that having to switch electrical goods off at the wall would have an unreasonable impact on their lifestyle. Either that or they like hugging trees and campaigning against everything that they don't understand, hence doing more harm than good by giving environmentalism a bad name.

[Idiophreak]

Are you sure you could stop global warming?

Doesn't it strike you that the globe would warm anyway?

I'm fairly sure we're making things worse, but the earth has always got warmer and cooler - or do you blame mammoths not turning their TV off at the wall for the end of the last ice age?
(this is a sarcastic comment, and as such rants about mammoths not actually being alive in X iceage etc etc etc aren't really necessary)

[9point9]

Yes, climate change happens naturally and that could also wipeout mankind but who should we try and wipe ourselves out? If any other intelligent species came along later and looked through fossil records it would be pretty obvious how silly we had been.

If we make changes now, it largely won't negatively impact our lifestyles. If we leave it too late then we'll suffer.

Yes, I could lay out a strategy for preventing human influences from affecting the climate and it wouldn't be an enormous burden on the economy either. It would have to start by changing peoples attitudes and getting them to save energy rather than getting government to legislate. Some time I can see offroaders being banned from cities yet instead what we need is for people to realise that most of them are pretty lame compared to the cars you could get for the same money so that then only people who need to go offroad actually buy them.

From next year homes will be graded on energy efficiency which means we'll hopefully see less hopelessness. Currently there are complete ****ing idiots who sell houses with dimmer switches that necessitate filament bulbs which will come to an end when everyone realises what a silly idea it is. It should also bring an end to the stupid ideas of interior designers who think that you can never have too many halogen spotlights. Retards.

I would intend to save 20% of Britain's electricity consumption. ~12GW. That would allow the worst polluting coal fired stations (inefficient and so expensive, meaning bills could be cut drastically) to be closed. The ridiculous natural gas station building spree of the late 90's (only because under NETA it was CO2 levy exempt yet nuclear wasn't only because of the negligible scheduled CO2 coolant discharges from the AGR fleet) is now causing more expensive electricity as we become a net importer of gas and this will get worse when the AGR fleet comes to the end of it's life, possibly sooner than expected due to the boiler tube cracking at HPB 3 and HNB 2 (that is not dangerous, contrary to what the sensationalist press says). We need nuclear new build and we need a Severn barrage.

To cut electricity consumption by 20% across 20 million homes would be 600W per home. That would be unrealistic but there is also industry so you can expect homes to save perhaps 300W each. That is possible. I've got a mains electricity metre and have measured lots of household appliances. I'd estimate that standby can use as around 100W in a home full of stupid people who leave everything on standby. You would be surprised how much some things use for doing nothing of any value, the worst I found was a video recorder that uses 15W and in return only shows you the time. A complete waste. Many people have picked up the myth that it is good to leave your computer powered on. While that was a worthwhile argument in the 1960's when mainframes had MTBF measured in weeks, it's wrong now. A computer idling uses around 80W which considering all of the businesses that insist their computers should be left on overnight would save the remaining GWs if they were switched off.

That's just a few ideas. Do this all around the world and you could top the current global warming trend.

[donkeyhumper]

so, what are you saying? air guitar yay or nay?

[Beanyboy]

so, what are you saying? air guitar yay or nay?

LOLS!

[mrplow]

no stairway

[Idiophreak]

denied!