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It's easy to understand.. LEDs are not bulbs in the sense of an incandescent bulb. They are electronic devices, basically a forward biassed diode. They need to have the proper minimum voltage . typically 3 to 4 volts for a white led. Unless the minimum threshold is reached to overcome an...

A barrage accross from NI to Scotland could make sense for energy.. there is a huge tidal difference with water flowing up from wexford and down fron rathlin.... mind you the submarines from Holy Lough would lose their freedom of movement.

.. it sounds very similar to the legal and courts system, except the fat women are better dressed.

On one level i would be delighted for there to be a bridge, or more realistically a rail tunnel. The distance is not too far. However I think one linking Dublin and north Wales would be more useful. The problem as i see it is that the population densities on both sides of the Irish sea off...

I am tempted to agree with you that many peiple are conditioned to enjoy (endure ) the noise. But not I, I .much prefer the silence.. one of the attractions of cycling and I hope of electrical cars, I look forward to just hearing the swhish of the tyres.

The French have it right I think,.. They insist on children under 12 wearing a helmet, but no requirement beyond that. This is sensible as the skull is still soft in children. It is relatively easy to recognise the British? Leisure cyclists in the coastal towns of Brittany... Matching bikes...

I would like to think not. But it is likely to cause distruption. Some of these compounds have very short half lives and all it takes is a few hours delay in customs . It's not that anyone would be stopping them, it's rather that they are not being enabled as a priority

The most telling part of your post is the bit "..in case they hurt themselves". That and the linked insurance/ claims industry is killing off industry in the West. I had to fight against members in my own department when I continued to insist that my year2 students must construct a project...

Whereas half baked, soozeled humans are equally bad at unpredictable events... There is an expectation that machines must be be perfect whereas we know people are not. Not to many drivers will do well in earthquakes, sink holes forming in front of them and even trees falling. Passive safety...

The old horse and trap used to do all these, and still do in some locations. ..parti particularly 3 above..

No no no !!. Halloween is a Celtic possibly even scandanivian linked very much with the Irish. It went of with the Irish to the States and got notions above its station. The original is Oiche Samhnain .. the night of of Samhnain. Based on the autumnal equinox , its about the spirits of the...

If you could extend A50 indefinitely, it would be be less damaging, and nearly as good as cancelling it... Anyway what our Leo said was already known and discussed on this forum months ago.. but the caveat remains that it must be a unanimous decision of 27 . Now while I know what Leo's...

If only ... then I could pretend to be British

Reminds me of the address I put on my school books when I was 10...

In terms of shared pain and economic cost of leaving . I would suggest that the region's most adversely affected will be in order .. .Northern Ireland, RoI , rest of UK, . Holland, There will be minor disruption in France and Germany, little in Spain and Italy and trivial effects in the...

.. well then I certainly am not British!!!!

Ian I can agree with everything you have written here, .. with the exception that I am not British. If and when the UK does leave the remaining 27 will make whatever adjustments as are feasible to minimise the friction. The EUs problem at present is that the UK does not know it's own mind so...

The satellites are not geo stationary.hence the requirement for a constellation of upwards of 24. They are much closer to earth than that. If your GPS unit , such as my Tom Tom has a satellite view, it indicates which satellites are above the horizon at any instant. You will readily see a...

I am not sure that the process is as simple as Doppler . My understanding is that each satellite , whose actual position at any instant is very accurately known, sends a time coded signal identifying its location . The time difference between any two signals defines a ring of possible...

The nuclear industry as we know it was designed in order to produce high-quality fissionable material for weapons. Had the opportunity been taken to use thorium instead, a much more sustainable resource would have been available. There are thorium reactors now, and extraction of thorium from...