Author: David Wilson

On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal suffered one of the most significant grid failures in modern European history. ...

30 April, 2025 /

In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist from upstate New York, suggested: An atmosphere of that gas [carbon dioxide] would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history the air had mixed with it...

15 April, 2025 /

Sunday 5th May My flight to Singapore to join MV Buxstar for a 5,000 mile voyage to Sydney via Jakarta, Freemantle, Adelaide and Melbourne arrives 6 am. Packing has been complicated. What will the weather be like in the Southern Ocean? Who cares, the...

11 April, 2025 /

‘Average capacity factors’ and unit costs from CSIRO’s GenCost 2023-24 report have been adopted to estimate and compare capex for AEMOs planned ‘renewable energy 2050’ network with an equivalent nuclear energy network....

24 October, 2024 /

November Whiskey X-ray, my four seater Piper Turbo Arrow IV went in for its annual overhaul just before Christmas last year. ...

24 March, 2024 /

In the 1880s the Rothschilds and Nobels were losing their battle with John D Rockefeller for the kerosene market in Europe. Their unlikely saviour was a Jewish merchant from the East End of London. Marcus Samuel transformed the petroleum industry, persuaded the Royal Navy to...

06 September, 2019 /