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This seems like madness to me. A fully loaded 747 has around 140,000 litres of energy-dense jet fuel containing between 2.2 and 2.9 GWh worth of energy - or around two hours output…

Came here to say exactly this. He wrote under so many pseudonyms he appeared to be an entire team of writers on his own.

The current minimum EPC rating is D. The legislation to raise it to C hasn't been dropped, they just haven't decided exactly what date it will take place. And it's stupid legislati…

I remember that the UK was forced to privatise Rail in the way that it did because of EU competition rules. I was commuting by Rail at the time and the manner in which it was priva…

Likewise. I used to possess a hand-written letter from Sophie Wilson (of Acorn/ARM fame) replying to my own hand-written query letter at around 1981 when I was 16 and learning to p…

It really is worth reading. And I say that as a die-hard Tolkien fan. Genuinely highly recommended.

I know both usages, and as an Englishman I am a native English speaker. However, I would agree that the most common usage would be the non-Red opponents of the communistic takeover…

Wow! Blast from the past! (University of Hull, around 1987).

All the base structure and common words are Germanic/Scandinavian. Yes, "fancier" vocabulary and constructed words like television or telephone are Latin/Greek derived. You could r…

A.E. Van Vogt wrote it. Brilliant author. I am sure one of the tales in "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" was the inspiration for "Alien".

Fascinating. I was hoping to see the "zero mile" marker in Alfreton and it was present. The fingerpost in Brownhills (in the West Midlands) is worth knowing as well: https://www.sa…

to-do-list presumably.

My (unsupported) desktop PC is an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 eight-core CPU running at 3.2Ghz with 16GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD storage. It handles Windows 10 Professional but is apparently in…

So well known that it was even famously used in an advert for a kid's chocolate bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9BBLSZZdQ

My daughter has an auditory impairment which she describes as "brain deaf". Basically, her hearing is perfect but her brain struggles to process sound in a noisy environment; she c…

I still run my (Unix) terminals sized to 80x43 by default.

Combine these with hydrogen-boron (aneutronic) fusion and we may be able to generate electricity directly without needing a thermal plant. Even though we are years away it still sh…

I really wish someone would revive mirasol displays. Sunlight-readable fast colour displays for e-readers and everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R352WObkU3Q

Agreed. With a 3-3 you are trading away influence in favour of hard territory. AI is happy to do that very early because AI can effectively destroy influence. Human players need to…

Thanks for that - fascinating story! http://www.queenoftheisles.com/HTML/Republic%20of%20Minerva....

Thanks, I hadn't heard that before.

Absolutely!

I love my Fossil Hybrid smartwatch! This is terrible news for those of us who want a watch that has smart features, as opposed to a miniature wrist phone.

I really enjoyed travelling between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight by hovercraft and heartily recommend the experience to anyone who hasn't tried it.