5 Crazy Ideas To Help Save The Environment

Urinating in the shower

As disgusting as some people may find the thought of urinating in the shower its actually just the same as urinating in the toilet apart from the fact that when you flush the toilet after a pee you use anything between 3 and 12 litres of fresh, clean, water (depending on the type of toilet you have and how modern it is). Even the most modern toilets will use at least 3 litres of water on each flush. Thats a lot of clean, fresh, water to get rid of a few millilitres of urine and it adds up over the year. If there are three people in your household and each person had a pee while taking their daily shower youd save at least 3,285 litres of water each year.

Dishwasher Cooking
As crazy as this may sound at first its not really that crazy when you stop and think about it. Your dishwasher is pretty much the same as an oven apart from it has a few extra features like soap and water but essentially its the same as an oven due to it being insulated inside and having a heating element. Now obviously there is some limitations as to what you can cook in a dishwasher but any food that can be poached can be cooked in a dishwasher. Salmon would be an obvious choice and would need wrapping in tin foil to ensure that the soapy water didnt reach the actual fish. With the heat build-up inside the dishwasher during the wash cycle it would cook the salmon while washing the pots. This would not only save energy but will also save you some time as well.

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Just make sure that youve wrapped the food with foil so that its waterproof and be careful not to puncture the foil when placing it in the dishwasher. Its best to place the food (in the foil package) in the top rack of the dishwasher away from the dirty pots and run the dishwasher on a hot setting (usually above 160 degrees F). Make sure that the dry cycle has completed before opening the door. As with any cooking method, make sure that the food is thoroughly cooked before eating. Undercooked food can be unsafe.

Resomation
Resomation is an environmentally friendly way to dispose of corpses and is used by funeral parlours. Resomation is a patent pending, environmentally beneficial alternative to cremation and burial and is both dignified and respectful. It has been developed in response to a growing desire for greater choice and increasing environmental awareness. Environmental research carried out by the independent consultancy Sustain a leading carbon reduction company has shown that the substitution of Resomation for cremation as part of a funeral will reduce that funerals emissions of greenhouse gases by approximately 35%. The energy needed for the Resomation process in the form of electricity and gas is less than one-seventh of the energy required for a cremation. In the UK up to 16% of all mercury is estimated to be emitted from crematoria because of the fillings in teeth, Resomation produces no airborne mercury emissions.

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The Resomation Process In Resomation the coffin is placed into a Resomator, and instead of fire, uses a water and alkali based method - also known as alkaline hydrolysis - to break the body down chemically. The process is normally 2-3 hours long, the same length of time as an average cremation and once complete, a sterile liquid and bone ash remain. The sterile liquid is returned to the water cycle and just like cremation the bone ash remains are placed in an urn and returned to loved ones. Information source: http://www.resomation.com/index.htm

Cloud Whitening
Cloud reflectivity modification is a proposed process of altering clouds to make them more or less reflective, in order to change their effect on climate. There are two hypothesised forms: cirrus stripping and marine cloud brightening. High, cold cirrus clouds tend to allow sunlight through, yet reflect infra-red from the Earth's surface. Therefore, thinning or removing these clouds reduces their reflectivity to infra-red and results in a net cooling effect on the Earth's climate. Conversely, low cloud tends to be warm and highly reflective to sunlight, especially when the cloud is white due to the presence of smaller droplets (because of the Twomey effect). Therefore, modifying these clouds to make them more reflective cools the climate. This proposed technique is known as 'marine cloud brightening' or 'cloud whitening' on low cloud. By modifying the reflectivity of clouds, the albedo of the Earth would be altered. The intention is that this technique, in combination with greenhouse gas emissions reduction (and possibly other geoengineering techniques) will be sufficient to control global warming. The effect is expected to be fully reversible, as the cloud condensation nuclei particles precipitate naturally.

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However, like any planetary-scale project dealing with the complex climate system, there is a non-trivial risk of unintended consequences. Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_reflectivity_enhancement

White Deserts
The idea of making large areas of desert white by adding reflective plastic sheets covering 67,000 square miles (170,000 km2) of desert every year between 2010 and 2070 to reflect the Suns energy. This technique can give globally averaged 1.74W/m2 of negative forcing, which is insufficient to offset the 3.7W/m2 of positive forcing from a doubling of CO2, but is still a very significant contribution and is sufficient to offset the current level of warming (approx. 1.7W/m2). However, the effect would be strongly regional, and would not be ideal for controlling Arctic shrinkage, which is one of the most significant problems resulting from global warming. Furthermore, the total area required during 2010-70 is larger than all non-polar deserts combined. Unless there is a breakthrough in the material used to reflect the suns heat then this method isnt viable.

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