So the Graun, usually quite good on environmental accuracy, claims that this house is somehow “zero-carbon“.
And apparently this all comes from one of those clever Grand Designs from Channel 4. But what they fail to mention is that this house is built of bricks. BRICKS! and glass. GLASS! If you can explain to me exactly how those are made without any carbon being produced, well I’ll be slightly surprised. Seems like nonsense to me.
And whilst we’re on green issues, if you didn’t watch Brian Cox (no, not the one who played Sidney McLoughlin in Mad about Mambo) on nuclear fusion, then you should have done.
And whilst we’re on telly, don’t watch Vertical City unless you want to be told that tall buildings are tall and can be seen from a long way away AND NOTHING ELSE ABOUT TALL BUILDINGS AT ALL.
Good bye and big lick.
Yes Brian Cox – and not the one who played Hanibal Lecture – he is rather good and also seems like he is perpetually stoned – reminds me of my friend Toby, but with more grey hair and his own TV series about physics. There are some other physical and personality differences as well. That’s why its more of a reminder than anything more concrete.
It was quite pretty – but stuck in the middle of a field…. And where did they hide all of their magazines, dirty cups and so on?
I remember as a boy reading about how in the future we would have vertical cities, in one building. A bit like Corbusier (spelling?), but a mile high! I was scared, becuase I liked living in a house. I’m over it now, tall buildings are cool. Or hot.
Can you make bricks by baking them in the sun? That would make them carbon free. We could try it in the summer.
You called him Lecture. Ha ha.