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If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000
pounds
of paper not used.
But I think there's another debate to be asked, which is the level of control we have over our tax money, that what costs us 10
pounds
in one context can be a curse; what costs us 10
pounds
in a different context, we may actually welcome.
You know, pay 20,000
pounds
in tax toward health, and you're merely feeling a mug.
Pay 20,000
pounds
to endow a hospital ward, and you're called a philanthropist.
You know my example of the Eurostar: six million
pounds
spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes.
You'd still have five million
pounds
in change, and people would ask for the trains to be slowed down.
If you're waiting trying to get to a job interview, you'd patently pay a couple of
pounds
more to go through the fast lane.
Actually, my pain experienced in paying five
pounds
is not just proportionate to the amount, but where I think that money is going.
That chip and PIN card that's in your pocket has a little chip on it that cost millions of
pounds
to develop, is extremely secure, you can put scanning electron microscopes on it, you can try and grind it down, blah blah blah.
He remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system, perfectly safe rocket launch, because he's sitting in a rocket that has, like, a hundred thousand
pounds
of thrust, built by the lowest bidder.
My green [unclear] 25,000
pounds
of vegetables, I'm growing organic citizens, engaged kids.
In the end, she got just 1,000
pounds
from the Lady Tata Memorial prize.
And it's important to note that these nets weigh more than a thousand
pounds
when they're full of fish.
They had to go back in and spend 600,000
pounds
putting the walls in.
Two and a half thousand
pounds.
And the Essex study which has just been done in the U.K., which incidentally showed that when you do this, you do not just make a room that's suitable for hearing-impaired children, you make a room where behavior improves, and results improve significantly, this found that sending a child out of area to a school that does have such a room, if you don't have one, costs 90,000
pounds
a year.
This farmer, for example, has invested 16,000
pounds
in growing spinach, not one leaf of which he harvested, because there was a little bit of grass growing in amongst it.
However, if I use as an example a family of five going on holiday, if you can imagine this, all the way from London all the way across to Hong Kong, what I want you to think about is their budget is only 3,000
pounds
of expenses.
What actually happens is, if I compare this to the average real project, average real successful project, the family actually end up in Makassar, South Sulawesi, at a cost of 4,000 pounds, whilst leaving two of the children behind.
So because we tested it with wheelchair users, with wheelchair manufacturers, we got that feedback from them, not just articulating their problems, but articulating their solutions, and worked together to go back to the drawing board and make a new design, which we brought back to East Africa in '09 that worked a lot better than a normal wheelchair on rough terrain, but it still didn't work well indoors because it was too big, it was heavy, it was hard to move around, so again with that user feedback, we went back to the drawing board, came up with a better design, 20
pounds
lighter, as narrow as a regular wheelchair, tested that in a field trial in Guatemala, and that advanced the product to the point where we have now that it's going into production.
I'd lost so much weight in hospital, I now weighed about 80
pounds.
I made a booking, and weeks later, my friend Chris and my mom drove me out to the airport, all 80
pounds
of me covered in a plaster body cast in a baggy pair of overalls.
I was dragging 180 kilos of food and fuel and supplies, about 400
pounds.
Some rough research suggests this could unlock around 100 million
pounds'
worth a day of new economic activity in a country the size of the U.K. Does that sound improbable to you?
If you brought the entire ozone layer down to the surface of the Earth, it would be the thickness of two pennies, at 14
pounds
per square inch.
In America, before the motor vehicle, transportation depended entirely on the urban horse, which dropped, without restraint, 25 to 50
pounds
of manure on the streets every day together with a gallon of urine.
I weight about 190
pounds.
So, as a bottom-of-the-rung architecture graduate, I might expect to earn about 24,000
pounds.
So what we want you to do is re-plan our entire building, and we know it's going to cost several million pounds, but we're reconciled to the fact."
It solves the same problem, but instead of spending several million pounds, you spend several hundred
pounds.
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