Student Has Bright Idea (My Dad Had It First)

VIU Students Save Energy

The Bulletin reports the results of a recent contest held at VIU for ways to save energy. Remember this is a bastion of higher learning, where the best and the brightest come to be prepared by the best and the brightest to lead our planet into the future.
 
Among the five winning entries reported were some high tech ideas such as using thermal imaging to identify areas of heat loss and recovering heat from the cafeteria area where heat is used to cook food and run dishwashers but is not harnessed and reused.
 
However, two of the five winning suggestions simply come as a surprise that they are not already being incorporated by such a high level brain trust. 

One suggestion was to turn down the thermostat and put on a sweater and the other was to turn the lights off when the sun was out! Absolutely brilliant!! Apparently there were some 225 entries, and considering that these were two of the 'winners', I can hardly guess what the others might have been.
 
As the heading suggests 'My Dad was first', with his elementary school education and lack of higher learning he was always turning off the lights and lowering the thermostat. And back in those days it had nothing to do with saving the planet or energy conservation, it was all about being able to pay the bills!