Health
Why are we living longer
The statistics don’t lie. For some reason we are living much longer than previous generations, but why. Surely it cannot be down to rNHS, they seem to want us all dead as does this rubbish [more…]
Science
Economics
The Case For SMR Hesitancy
As Energy Secretary Ed Milliband’s Net Zero cultural revolution gathers pace, this week he announced a nuclear renaissance. A new £14bn reactor is planned for Sizewell. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are being championed through a [more…]
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 2
T.I.B Or Not To T.I.B? PersonX: “Doc, can you just have a look at the vacuum cleaner it’s making a funny noise?” Doc: “Err…well..err…you see I’ve got…err…an appointment with the dentist…” PersonX: “There’s no mention [more…]
Computing
Digitising Old Photographs
The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part Three
Four months on So far I am very pleased with it. No alarms, no problems and good customer service from both sales and technical support. I’m not saying other vendors aren’t as good but Pecron [more…]
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 1
Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part Two
What You’ll Need A Home Backup System, in my case (AC300 + B300K) Solar panels 405w £50 each Solar cable, from Bluetti with connectors and 50m cable only from Electrical World Solar cable crimper Staubli [more…]
20th Century
Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?
Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe. The science was settled and the experts agreed. The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part One
When I bought my first custom PC back in 1999, a Gateway machine with dual Pentiums (Only PC I ever had which actually did two things at once), one of the things missing living in [more…]