Design & Technology DVDs

Within Design and Technology students design, manufacture and evaluate products. Food Technology is included also within this curriculum area.

Noisy Planet’s current Design & Technology catalogue includes a series of three films that show unintended consequences of design (lead in petrol, PCB pollution and antibiotic misuse) and a film on the current state of play in renewable energy.

Design & Technology is a growth area for Noisy Planet. Please check back to see the new films that will be added over the coming weeks.

Transforming Energy

As we come to the end of the Oil Age, there is a general acceptance that the next era of human existence will have to be powered by renewable energy sources. This level-headed, non-cranky analysis examines how the three key alternative energy sources - solar, wind and biomass - are being developed for everyday applications and how they point the way towards genuine energy sustainability for future generations.
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An immortal poison - the history of PCB

In the 1920s PCBs were considered to be wonder-materials. Their fire resistance, electrical insulation and ability to make other materials more pliable led to use in countless applications. They were routinely used in hydraulic fluids, paint, ceiling tiles, Linoleum, electrical components, concrete, railway sleepers and domestic white goods. But in the 1970s PCBs were found to have leaked into the environment and entered the food chain, where they were wreaking a devastating effect on animal and human organisms around the world. They were banned, but it was too late. PCBs do not simply disappear and they continue to cause harm to this day.
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Lead for life - the history of leaded petrol

This is the shocking story of how the big oil companies sought huge profits by adding lead to petrol from the 1920s onwards in full knowledge of its negative effect on health and despite the existence of healthier alternatives such as bio-fuel. Although lead made petrol more efficient, it had been known to be poisonous since Roman times. The hundreds of thousands of tons of lead that have been spread around the world can be proven to have impaired the brain function of millions around the world.
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The last antibiotics - the history of antibiotics

Penicillin is the most ground-breaking discovery in the history of medicine, a drug that could cure people of the most dreaded infections. But abuse and overuse allowed many pathogenic bacteria to outwit the miracle drug. Today resistant bacteria are winning the battle against antibiotics as a whole and the development of new medicines has reached almost a standstill. Using archive footage and expert witnesses, this fascinating programme tells the whole sorry tale from start to finish.
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