• Question: What impact does your project have on the environment?

    Asked by anon-260030 on 2 Oct 2020. This question was also asked by anon-260559, anon-256868.
    • Photo: Tim Knapp

      Tim Knapp answered on 2 Oct 2020:

      Ooooooh good one Jemma.
      As we were developing on-line resources for Transfusion Science rather than them turning up at a centre for us to deliver it, it will save a lot of carbon emissions as they won’t have to travel, use hotels, or use any paper because we won’t be printing out workbooks. 🙂

    • Photo: Richard Fielder

      Richard Fielder answered on 2 Oct 2020:

      In the short term it’s probably not great, since running a particle accelerator takes quite a lot of power. But in the long term, a lot of the research done here could be quite beneficial, such as understanding how batteries work at the atomic scale to improve their efficiency and longevity, making better solar panels, and studying bacteria that can digest plastic waste.

    • Photo: Helen Playford

      Helen Playford answered on 8 Oct 2020:

      I’ve been doing some work recently on making better batteries for cars, so hopefully that will lead to more people being able to use electric cars and help the environment one day! I’ve also been involved in projects looking at hydrogen-powered cars and catalysts to improve the efficiency and reduce waste in chemical plants.

    • Photo: Sonia Rodriguez

      Sonia Rodriguez answered on 10 Oct 2020:

      I’m going to answer this question from a different perspective. Biomedical labs consume a lot of plastic every day: Petri dishes to culture the cells, tubes to do the mixtures, gloves, packaging… It is necessary for our work and we do our best to reduce the amount of plastic and recycle as much as possible, but we still have a long way to go.

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