It was good to see Egon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket return to Earth the other day by landing the right way up on a floating platform. The video of it is here, along with a few clips of instances where this didn't quite go as well, and a nice explanation of the issues involved. It's good to see this reduction in waste. The manoeuvre reminded me of the comics I used to read as a boy when rockets always did this. Nice to know that real technology has finally caught up with tech-fi.
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...