Brain Freeze
A hippie hut classroom in London is an unmitigated disaster:
Silly eco-hippies; engineering and construction are activities for mature adults. Go back to planting trees and leave the real work to those qualified for it.
The much feted zero-carbon Living Ark classroom was opened three months ago to great fanfare.
It boasts laudable green credentials and is made from sustainable wood, sheep’s wool and soil. The roof is made of mud and grass and it has its own ‘rain pod’ and solar panels. But there is snag – its solar panels only provide enough energy to power a few lightbulbs.
As a result the classroom is bitterly cold and uninhabitable for lessons.
Silly eco-hippies; engineering and construction are activities for mature adults. Go back to planting trees and leave the real work to those qualified for it.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:54
1 Comments:
If green technology is ever going to take off government has to step back and stop subsidizing it. This may look like an epic failure to us, but they still got paid by the tax payers. I’m sure this project also came with certain prestige and elevated the team involved as “innovators” among their peers. They got everything they wanted without having to produce actual results. This model cannot work.
-JW
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