Just posting this so that in 20 years I can say I had the idea first… Electric car motors are generally direct transmission (without gears) because they are effective over a much wider range than internal combustion (IC) engines. As a result they have a much smoother acceleration, no transmitted pulse from the individual strokes [...]
I have been working on a short film the last while, and now it’s finished! It’s a compact one minute and twenty five seconds impression of Vancouver. I did the photography and image manipulation, Alex did the editing and music. Please have a look, and if you like it, forward it on to your friends! [...]
We’re just back from Burning Man – more about that later, but first a short post about solar cooking! Prior to Burning Man, I made a solar cooker based on the CooKit plan – it cost about $10 in materials (a mylar emergency blanket, some thin (3mm) chipboard, and glue), and took about 2 hours [...]
Here’s a funny video of break-dancing bees, highlighting that the number honey bees are quickly declining world wide, which is having a huge knock-on effect on polination for many plants Bee-Boy dance crew drops dead