Please join this FREE climate experiment....No hassle involved

TaBunny

(p.s to the Mods and Martin, I think this is something very important could it be made a sticky, also maybe Martin could check this out and if he throws his weight behind this then we could really get all of MSE joining in. Thanks.)

Now I've got your attention. Last night the BBC showed a fantastic programme on climate change and are trying to get ordinary people to join in an amazing new experiment to gather data on climate change. They need the power of 10's of thousands of ordinary computers to run future speculations of possible climate changes so as they can gather data to try and predict the outcome of what damage we are doing to the planet and ways to try and stop this damage. It is a very easy free download here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/

It runs behind your normal programmes and wont effect them at all, oh and you don't have to be Einstein to understand it its a self run programme, it could be great to get your kids involved or even schools so that the future generations can learn about what is happening to their planet in a fun way.

Come on guys this site is about saving after all and what better way to help than to try and do a little saving of the planets future. All the details you need are on the BBC link above.

(p.s to the Mods and Martin, I think this is something very important could it be made a sticky, also maybe Martin could check this out and if he throws his weight behind this then we could really get all of MSE joining in. Thanks.)



You need:

• a broadband connection to the Internet, although the data rate (speed) of that connection is not important
• 0.6GB (600 megabytes) of free space on your hard disk drive – check this by opening Windows Explorer, right-clicking on your computer hard drive (often labelled C:) and selecting 'Properties'
• in total at least 512MB of RAM (memory) – see how much you have at the same time as you check your processor type
• a processor at least as powerful as a 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 (a typical PC setup about 3–4 years ago) – you can check this by right-clicking on the My Computer icon on your desktop, and then selecting 'Properties'.

Laptop computers may get very hot running the experiment, because it is processor intensive and they have less cooling capacity than desktop computers. You are advised not to run the experiment on a laptop.

Poppycat

I mentioned it a month ago

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=151616&highlight=climate

Good idea to get it a sticky although it would be even nicey if people would do there bit and comsume less fossil fuels etc.

Poppycat

Just a thought now that fuel costs increasing well above inflation, and now there isn't a day that don't go by in the media regarding climate change. I wonder if we could have some tips for saving on fuel without impinging to much on our live styles.

Example I been using low energy bulbs for best part of 15 years. A couple of years ago the OH wanted spots, but I gather we can now get low energy spotlights, I wondered if anyone tried these?

That sort of thing etc.