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COVID-19: Day 212 Update: Population Prevalence

Summary This post is an update on the likely prevalence of COVID-19 in the UK population. (Previous update). The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest even more clearly than...

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I hate it when it’s too hot

  I find days when the temperature exceeds 30 °C very unpleasant. And if the night-time temperature doesn’t fall then I feel doubly troubled. I have had the feeling that such days have become more...

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The Last Artifact

A long long time ago (May 2018) in a universe far far away (NPL), I was asked to take part in a film about the re-definition of four of the seven SI base units: The Last Artifact The team – consisting...

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A Bright Future?

Click for a larger Image of the book covers. Friends, a few weeks ago I reviewed two books about our collective energy future: Decarbonising Electricity Made Simple and Taming the Sun. Summarising...

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The World Set Free

I recently re-read “The World Set Free” by H.G. Wells, a book which has a decent claim to being the most influential work of fiction of the 20th Century. Written in 1913, a central theme of the book is...

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Will aviation eventually become electrified?

Friends. I ‘have a feeling’ that aviation will eventually become electrified. At first sight this seems extraordinarily unlikely, but I just have this feeling… Obviously, I could just be wrong, but let...

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What else can I do?

Friends, while writing the slides for my recent talk to teenagers, I became very aware of the awfulness of the future facing the children I was addressing – and my own children who are only around 8...

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Fusion is a failure.

Friends, I listened with astonishment this morning to a Radio 4 science-tainment program called The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: The Puzzle of the Plasma Doughnut. I think it may have been the...

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Hydrogen in the UK

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Friends, on Monday I visited a Brunel University Hydrogen Event. This meant getting up(!) and travelling far beyond the borders of Teddington on TWO buses – so when I arrived in...

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The Effect of Big Oil’s Delaying Tactics

Friends, since my last article about Big Oil’s lies and deceptive advertising, I have spent some time trying to understand the magnitude of the damage they have done. This has involved considering...

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