Submit Your UK Growth Idea And Win £10,000

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 17 Aug 2013, 17:46

D'you know, I might just put in "Centrally heated conservatories for all!" as my "growth" idea

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 20 Mar 2015, 12:25

The next 'must-have' gadget. Soon to be seen in dumps round the world.

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 20 Mar 2015, 15:55

It's not technically a 3D printer, although it is described as such. More of a plotter really. Now if you could re-purpose it to draw working solar PV cells on things, then I'd be keen!

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 20 Mar 2015, 16:02

Tarrel wrote:It's not technically a 3D printer

Run the same program x number of times and you have a 3D pancake!

Lurkalot · Post by **Lurkalot** » 21 Mar 2015, 12:16

kenneal - lagger wrote:My entry

The building industry has traditionally led the country out of recession. Let it do so again..........permanently reduce the proportion of income spent outside the general economy.

I'm assuming you didn't get the ten grand Ken and there doesn't seem to be a link on that website to the winning proposal . I don't suppose you know what idea was deemed to be the best entry , would be interesting to see how it all panned out.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 21 Mar 2015, 23:35

kenneal - lagger wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:The Kenneal - lagger insulationfest should win this by a mile!

Of course, once we are all wrapped up, and with our energy coming in for (almost) free, the "economy" will collapse because we won't be spending oodles of money on energy any more
You would have to wait about 40 years for that to happen, Candy, maybe fifty. There are 25 million houses to insulate and quite a few industrial buildings as well. The houses alone require an average 625,000 units per year to be insulated and, as we have a problem building even 200,000 houses per year, insulating that number could give us a problem. Given a standard distribution curve for the uptake of the insulation that equates to about 2.5 or 3 million per year at peak! We still need the 200K houses as well!

Well Ken you have at the least a lot of worthwhile work in front of you that you know how to do and have customers demanding your services. There are a lot of blokes out there that would gladly trade places with you.