Uploaded on 2014-11-10 by KennethHawthorn

This is a photograph taken on my walk through the Strathclyde University campus to my home in Glasgow, Scotland after staying back pretty late to work. This was taken around 8pm on a week night. Visible Information: Not many car parking spaces and this is late at night when no-one should be around. There are a lot of lights on the buildings in front where lectures take place. The streets are very well lit with street lamps. It is hard to see in my blurry photo, but the dozen or so people walking around are quite young and wearing warm clothes. Invisible Information: The fact that car parking spaces are so hard to find even at this late time in the night can tell us that navigating this city by personal car is difficult. Walking or public transport is the primary methods of getting around by those that live in this city. The fact that the lights are on inside university buildings while they are closed is a telling factor that energy waste is quite common here. You can tell this because it is dark and late, and there are no lectures being at night. There are also far too many streetlamps, much more than needed to light up the walkways, so this energy waste is a city wide issue and not just related to the University. Knowledge and Improvements: Now that we know that energy usage is a problem in this city, we can try and come up with ways to curb this. City planners could space street lamps out further to waste less light in such small areas, and the British Standards (Local Building Regulation laws) could be updated to mandate movement detection switches for lights so that less energy is wasted on empty rooms. This would keep costs down, reduce our impact on the environment and help stop light pollution as well. Informative Reading: UK worst in Europe in energy waste: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6075794.stm [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14156320261835107.jpg