E-Day Launch
Energy Saving Day was intended to show how small energy savings from individuals can make a difference. E-Day was launched outside St. Pauls in central London with some speeches and films powered by yours truly! Our beautiful Babs got her picture on the BBC website. We did an interview for russian tv and various local and international tv and radio stations gave us a mention.
It was a great day, but as we left London and the media circus we were very dissapointed to see every office light in the whole of London seemed to be left on!
E-Day written in candles - nice touch!
St. Paul switches off all its lights….. Bless!
A keen journalist wants a picture of Matt and the Carbon Cycle Crew!
Why are all the lights on in all those offices?
Some Videos!
See us in action in a couple of documentaries all about us! How vain!
Firstly Simon Mullen has submitted his Super 8 documentary of our Big Chill gig to Film4’s FourDocs.
Check it out and leave your reviews:
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=51985
Second and equally check out Jess Blakes documentary which gives a bit more of our story and she has entered into the grains of sand film competition
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http://www.stage6.com/user/SatanicVicar/video/1940202/The-Magnificents
Improving Our Kit
With our up and coming events we want to be able to use kids bikes to power our kit. Using a lovely pink girls Raleigh bike, a modified stand and an adult pretending to be a child we estimate that kids under 12 will be able to power up to 100W peak, but probably only 30-50 average depending on their size and enthusiasm. This means we can now start making some suitable kit for our kids workshops that they can actually power!
A child with very large feet!
We are beginning to develop a system which will allow us to give feedback to each cyclist on how much they are producing. A little hand made varoboard PCB with PIC microchip processor is powered off each bike displays the power output on an analogue meter. We can now tell which types of bike are most efficient, how much kids can produce and who is being lazy! We will be trialing this system with the cinema at Interdependence Day in London (see events). Soon we want to make all the PCB’s talk to each other and find out how much people can power collectively and eliminate the tedious job of predicting when the system might cut out!
A Bike Meter…….. 4.5 on the scale = 60W
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