GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Stay Cool! - Stop global warming
The museum is heated by eco-friendly fuel in the form of woodchip, which is helping to reduce the effects of climate change, as it releases lower quantities of atmospheric pollutants than fossil fuels.
Over the last few years evidence for climate change has been accumulating rapidly and there is now growing consensus that the main causes are the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land-use, particularly deforestation.
The earth’s climate has changed slowly over millions of years and animals and plants have largely been able to evolve and acclimatize, however, the huge amounts of oil, coal and gas burnt since the later part of the 18th century as part of industrialization has interfered with the natural cycle of greenhouse gases (particularly carbon dioxide) which trap the sun’s heat in the earth’s atmosphere, creating global warming.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is nature’s way of storing energy. A tree uses sunlight to convert the carbon in carbon dioxide into wood. When the amount of carbon being released through burning wood equals the amount being stored by growing trees, then we achieve almost an even balance. This contrasts with burning fossil fuels which release the carbon locked up by prehistoric plants.
An obvious solution is to reduce consumption of fossil fuels and to prevent and reverse deforestation. Wood can provide a renewable and sustainable source of energy.
continued opposite...
Education Visits & Courses
CLICK HERE
Admission Prices
CLICK FOR TICKETING INFO
Local Attractions
WINDERMERE LAKE CRUISES
LAKESIDE & HAVERTHWAITE RAILWAY
- Open daily except Christmas Day from 10.00
- -
- Closing at 16.30 until the 30th March then 17.30 until the end of October
- -
- Enquiry line: 015395 30400
Bioenergy is energy produced from burning biomass in the form of specially grown crops or forests. This includes short rotation energy crops, grown for between 2 and 20 years and herbaceous energy crops gathered by reaping annually.
At the Lakeland Motor Museum woodchip produced from locally harvested trees, grown in managed woodlands is burnt to provide a constant supply of hot water and also to provide warmth by means of a highly efficient underfloor heating system.
Using wood for energy dictates active and careful woodland care which in turn provides for the preservation of a range of habitats essential for native wildlife. It also has the important advantage of creating much needed employment opportunities in rural areas.
