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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/16 Richard Smedley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smedley358@btinternet.com">smedley358@btinternet.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hello Tim,<br><br>Tim Dobson wrote:<br>
<div class="im">> Andrew Williams wrote:<br>>> Looks interesting, and hopefully i'll be able to afford it this time<br>>> round. I'll pencil it in :)<br>><br>> Tip: fly Ryanair (how much luggage do you need for a techie<br>
> conference?!) to Charloi airport 15miles south - ~£45 pounds return<br><br></div>Tip - stop f***ing up the planet with CO2 & never<br>fly again. There is *nowhere* in Europe not easily<br>reachable by train.<br></blockquote>
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<div>We shouldn't have to sacrifice fast travel to reduce CO2 emissions. </div>
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<div>There's no reason whatsoever why planes couldn't run on liquid hydrogen, produced through a combination of renewables and nuclear energy.</div>
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<div>This would give us fast transport in a way that has precisely zero emissions. </div>
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<div>The trick to being green is <em>not </em>to change people's behavior. That's far too hard to do. The trick is to make whatever they're already doing less damaging.</div>
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<div>Simon.</div>
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