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Tuesday 15:00-15:30
Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listener's questions and concerns.
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Tuesday 1 February 2005
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Baroness Barbara Young
Chief Executive,

Dr Ros Taylor
Principal Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science, Kingston University


Bio-geographer, University of London

TOPICS

The Carlisle floods


Paul Simons gave a good description of a "sting jet" in his Weather Eye column for The Times newspaper on January 10th 2005. A précis of that appeared on the

Harnessing the power of rivers
Can the power of the River Avon tumbling over two weirs in the town centre be harnessed and used to power street lights?
Philip Stott showed how the power contained in water may be defined by this formula:
P = H x Q x g x e,
where:
P = power in kW;
H = head of water in m;
Q = flow of water in cubic m;
g = gravitational constant;
e = efficiency factor (normally 0.5).
A similar formula is given by the .
Redwings
Do redwings fly at night?


Airbus A380



Sunbathing blackbirds
Why do blackbirds appear to sunbathe?



Tarry residue from coal fires





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