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Wood like to power
There are few better ways to warm up cold winter feet than roasting them in front of a wood fire, but burning the odd log is good for more than just heating up the lounge. In fact, a new power station in Scotland is burning large amounts of timber waste to generate cleaner electricity.
Dye Easter eggs, dye!
Enough with the chocolate. There’s a nice post on Curbly about how to dye hard-boiled eggs with natural colours.
The skies: the limit?
Today is Pi Day - a celebration of mathematics’ most compelling number.
But even those who have memorised the number to fifty decimal places (or, hey, to 628 places) would have trouble working out how much is enough when it comes to air travel.
Should petrol be cheaper?
Yesterday we wrote about the Budget, in which chancellor Alistair Darling delayed a 2p tax hike on fuel but announced a hefty new tax for the largest, most polluting cars. Higher taxes aren’t great news for the driver, but they’re good for the environment, right?
Gas-guzzlers bear Budget’s brunt
You could almost hear a collective sigh of relief this morning, as the nation’s put-upon motorists awoke to news that April’s 2p hike in fuel duty was on hold for six months.
Flood for thought
Coming as it does while the UK is getting hammered by yet another round of storms, a new report into last summer’s flooding could have made sobering reading. Instead, it brings hope that 2007’s torrential rains might have been a one-off, rather than the shape of things to come.
What’s a solar mortgage?
There’s been a lot more interest in ‘green’ mortgages over the last few years, with an increasing number of providers offering to make the purchase of your home a more environmentally-friendly business.
Wave off
We’ve taken a break from testing how much electricity washing machines use to answer a question about microwaves.
Sandra Storr asked us to look at the one-time ovens of the future, as she’d heard that they used as much power on standby as they did during cooking.
Hard shoulder, soft option?
Most of us keep well out of the hard shoulder unless we’ve broken down, and these days, those who don’t tend to end up on one of myriad “cop ‘n’ camera” shows.
Cars dancing on ice
While looking around for interesting winter driving videos, we came across this astonishing piece of footage.
