I thought I might share my limited knowledge and experience with fellow GPers regarding solar panels or solar PV. From Wiki: ‘Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the [more…]
Damn You Morus Nigra! ‘John Swerved as Mary, Queen of Scots, was busy with her throne but it wouldn’t flush so her face turned to stone when Jane put her hand on John’s gear stick [more…]
“Your nose will grow…” I’m sure that we can all recall some of these admonitions from our youth: “Keep looking like that and your face will stick!” – Why? To what? Surely that isn’t in [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico under J Robert Oppenheimer, Feynman was also tasked with co-ordinating research and development between Los Alamos and the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee. [more…]
Introduction In my laser articles Iv’e often mentioned the helium-neon (He-Ne) laser which I have used to align the feedback mirrors and make holograms. I thought that it would be remiss of me not to [more…]
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