Month: August 2022
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Assessing the choice of self-charging hybrid cars vs EV
Increasing alarm at rising energy costs in the UK has dominated the news agenda in recent weeks, reaching its current peak after the energy regulator Ofgem (the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) announced the widely-expected huge increase in the…
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Stop the show, I want to get off
If you’ve read any of the mainstream media in recent days, or glanced through the news feeds in your social networks, it wouldn’t take much to feel that the end of the world as we know it is imminent. It…
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Topics for FIR 279
My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 279, our monthly long-form podcast episode for August 2022, published on August 22, 2022: What’s New in the 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Every year, IT industry analysts Gartner publishes their…
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Temperature alignments
As we start another heat wave here in the UK, the talk about temperatures increases. One topic I find constant, especially in conversation with American friends, is understanding what various temperature measurements mean. For example, what’s 30 degrees Celsius in…