In a synthetic chemistry lab, we have worked out how to convert the red pigment in common bricks into a…
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“You can take our lights. You can take all our frozen food, but don’t you dare take our WiFi from…
The country may be hit by some ‘scheduled rolling blackouts’, but that doesn’t mean we should stop having fun. Although it may feel like we’re back in the stone age, and traffic seems to add hours to your commute, there are ways to make the dark times more comfortable for everyone.
There is debate, though, about whether fully renewable electricity systems are feasible and how quickly the transition can be made. Here it’s argued that feasibility is clear, so only the transition question is relevant.
Trusty old CityPower has been hit by a ransomware attack that has rendered its online applications useless and residents unable to buy prepaid electricity.
The Apollo computer was state-of-the-art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that are available today?
I suspect that the software development time would have been a lot faster, due to the software development tools that are available today. It would have been a lot quicker to write, debug and test the complex code required to deliver a man to the moon.