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...
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...
A voyage from Chichester to Oban on a 47' Motor Yacht built in 1935 and designed by GL Watson....
‘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....
November Whiskey X-ray, my four seater Piper Turbo Arrow IV went in for its annual overhaul just before Christmas last year. ...
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...