The painful progress of fusion

I recently undertook my decennial scan of our latest efforts to extract useful amounts of energy from controlled nuclear fusion. It’s one of those subjects I feel a need to check up on every decade or so in case I miss an interesting new development.

Continued at Broad Oak Magazine

Northwest Passage debacle?

A number of people around the internet have been following the Mainstream Last First Expedition where four chaps have decided to row through the Northwest Passage.

Why?

Continued at OoL.

Walking with a sat nav

Traditional walkers who favour big leather boots and hairy socks still seem to look down on satellite navigation for walkers. Yet bit by bit the practical value of these remarkable products of the electronic age are creeping up on us.

So I recently bought one.

continued at Broad Oak Magazine

New short story

I've posted a new short story on my Haart Writes blog called Roast Watch. As usual, it can be accessed through the Short Stories tab on this blog.

Polluting the climate

There are a number of more or less feasible ways in which humans may influence climate, both locally and globally... full post at Broad Oak Magazine.

Would you notice?

Posted over at Broad Oak Magazine.

UK carbon capture

Posted over at Broad Oak Magazine.