 Global water and air volume
Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.
Source: Adam Nieman / Science Photo Library |
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Energy efficiency and environment idea reminders:
(This is just a list of ideas I might want to remember on day)
- Rain water tanks - used 200 litre barrels
- Rain water tanks - used 1000 litre plastic wired framed tanks
- Rain water tanks - childrens swimming pool under the deck
- Rain water tanks - used water bed bladder under the deck
- Add more grassy areas on suburban roads to absorb rain/storm water (reduces the peak flows into storm water systems)
- plant (more) fruit trees and nut trees on public land
- eat local challenge - can I/we eat local-only food for one day a week?
- Used cooking oil bio-diesel
- collect all the used cooking oil from Moera take-away shop (3 fish-n-chips, and 1 cafe)
- purchase a bio-diesel micro refinery bio-diesel micro refinery
- use it in diesel cars and emergency generator
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