Posts by Jules 7 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2006
I don't know if it would apply to the UK as much as in Canada where there is significant hydro generated power. One plan I had heard of was to link wind generation with hydro generation whereby hydro generation would be reduced when wind generation was high thereby enabling the water levels to increase or at least not decrease as quickly.
Wine bottles and beer bottles (glass and aluminum cans) are recycled, the cans are crushed (if they have not been crushed on return) and glass bottles are reused (apparently up to 7x). If other glass food containers were uniform sizes from different food manufacturers, reusing may be more feasible and eco-friendly.
Also, here, the electricity suppliers have switched to smart meters and graduated fees for use (higher during business hours, less during evenings and even less during nights and weekends). Therefore, it is more economical to hang clothes out on nice sunny days than use the drier.
After reading the article and looking at the logo, I can see what people are referring to but if I had not looked at the logo, I would not have seen the "sex act".
When my wife and I were thinking of names for our sons, we started avoiding certain names because of how kids might twist them into something else as an insult. After a while, we came to the conclusion that no matter what name we gave our sons, if another child wants to insult them and can't turn their name into something else insulting, they will just use a generic insult.
The same could be said about this logo: somewhere, someone is going to see something in any or image. The committee should just avoid obvious images and recommend their logo based on their best efforts.
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