On the back of the record power output by photovoltaic solar cells, just a week or two ago, comes news from yesterday that energy, coming from renewable resources, provided 50.7% of the total UK electrical power requirements. Add in the unfortunate nuclear fission power, which in operation at least is low carbon in itself, and the output was upto 72.1%. It's going in the right direction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40198567
Sir Tim Berners - Lee, without whom this forum would not have been possible, is 62 years old today. When he enabled access to the World Wide Web that he invented, he insisted it should be free for all to use. Happy Birthday Tim!
Yes, indeed. A very important person indeed. Pretty much invented the most important modern thing since... well almost anything. The telephone, the petrol engine and derivatives, the aeroplane, railways, the electric motor... anything that you can think of which was a milestone in communication, the World Wide Web is up there with them and, one could argue, is the greatest of those inventions so far. Many Happy Returns.
For such a small country, we have punched well over our weight in science and technology. What bright little sparks we are.
Just found this quote: Over the past 50 years, according to Japanese research, more than 40 per cent of discoveries taken up on a worldwide basis originated in the United Kingdom
I bet if you extended the window over the last 200 years the percentage would be up in the 80-90 percentile.
Yes, as the industrial revolution really got going here. What an exciting time to be an inventor, scientist or explorer.
Looks as though we're heading in the right direction while Trump "invests" millions in coal etc in the US. Hope he chokes on the fumes.
Selling some old Saints programmes on eBay if anyone is interested! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322538682078 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322538677418 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322538660873 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322538670021 70s through to the 00s http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322538687544 Some England ones too 80s and 90s
Haven't you got any proper old ones from the 1960's I had every league game from August 1966 to end of season 1974 [IIRC]. Ended up selling them in NZ in a garage sale for NZ$200 in the early 1990's. They were mint because, like a true nerd, I ironed them before I put them up for sale. Before you giggle, they were unmarked inside, so I was just maximising their value by making them like new. Sadly 'maximising' them to achieve 200 NZ dollars was only £60 at the time. Now you can laugh.
The ridiculous thing is that the USA are very much in the forefront of highly profitable new energy technologies, and most of these ex-coalminers could probably be retrained in assembly and maintenance. These technologies don't need to be where an ore is. They just need reasonable transportation links and the will to set up in a new place.
Been away watching the election, but then I decided to watch the 50 year anniversary of St Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, presented by the hugely knowledgeable Howard Goodall. An excellent programme, which I thoroughly recommend if you haven't seen it. If the conversation has already been and gone on this thread then I apologise for being late. But at least I've got my comment in. I've always appreciated that the album was a game changer. I think everyone who first heard it did that to them. But it has never really hooked me like several others, primarily because it is such a kaleidoscope of different styles of music in one album. But it's certainly in my collection of LPs, and it was one of the first I bought, way back when, and I do still play it occasionally. I usually put it on after that immediately previous game changing album, Pet Sounds.
