Unit 1: When the lights go out

In our first session we started by looking at the electrical items we all use in a day. Jonjoe counted 23 different appliances he used since waking up on that day. This led us to a discussion about what would happen should all the lights go out and the high demand for electricity around the world:

Source: CCS project resources

After that, we discussed the following questions:

• Why not continue to use fossil fuels (the cheapest option) to produce most of our electricity?
• What initiatives for tackling carbon dioxide emissions are you aware of?

As true scientists, we noted down the findings of the discussion in our lab notebooks: