A bad day for wind

Wind power: Even worse than you thought pretty well tells you the story. Wind power in its current incarnation is not a solution to renewable energy needs. The created market in renewables obligation certificates is keeping wind farm operators in business, not the...

New word needed

Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone? looks at why there are few hitchhikers left. I guess my nephew won’t even know what one is when he gets to read H2G2. I need to find a (new?) word along the lines of falsification (the idea that one single event – a...

Spooky action at a distance

So I woke up last night thinking that there was someone in the house, and to some extent there was. The Sonos had woken up, started playing Radio 4 and had mysteriously tweeted the letter “j” on my behalf. How very strange.
Same height again

Same height again

So I came out of our apartment ,dropped down to street level, met a friend randomly and walked up steps uphill to reach pretty well the same height as my place. Photo is looking back from the top of the steps. 27 floors in less than a minute per floor. Not to mention...