Regarding productivity, office to lab conversions tend to be less spatially efficient (e.g.
I have consumed, benefitted from cheap energy, travelled on business and for pleasure to far flung places.My lifetime carbon footprint will be in the top 25% of the world population despite my efforts now to minimise it.
I have three children who are very aware and are taking decisions which will mean their impact on the world will be positive.. What should I do in this contrite state?Should I wear a hair shirt, carry around my guilt, or go and live like a hermit?.The reality is that no matter how much I do personally, on my own, it will have a completely negligible effect on the problem.
UK carbon emissions are less than 1% of global emissions.I am one of 66 million people in the UK.
On the other hand, how can I encourage, debate or support others to reduce their emissions without being willing to act and experience the process myself.
Taking the wood out of my own eye before I try to take it out of the eyes of others..food, drink, paper, fabric and agriculture.
There is a huge effort ongoing to find replacement sources for aircraft fuel (SAF).A small amount of this could be diverted to the much more commercially valuable (margin-wise) supply of high purity solvents..
Waste recycling within plants is something many manufacturers are looking to increase.This does not come without quality and technical challenges.