Comments for Nick Thorne

Comment on Anchor Alarm Free: a Free Google Android Anchor Alarm App by Captn' Rene

Captn' Rene — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:11:24 +0000

Wonderful app. I’ve been waiting for this from some bright, intellectual individual like yourself. “Meter” is spelled correct where i’m from by the way. It works…why complain? Keep up the good work.

Comment on Anchor Alarm Free: a Free Google Android Anchor Alarm App by Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:20:36 +0000

‘metre’ is the internationally recognised spelling. The only English-speaking country to use ‘meter’ (for the unit of length, as distinct from a device for measuring things) is the USA. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Spelling and http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/Spelling_metre_or_meter.pdf

Comment on Carbide scrapers, web hosting, energy efficiency by Sheiryl

Sheiryl — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:46:11 +0000

I plan to use it as a side scraper, particularly for carbide flat. It will likewise rough out spindles and should likewise be very helpful in starting a few of the common spindle cuts.

Comment on Nant-y-Moch wind farm by Harry Brown

Harry Brown — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:48:13 +0000

actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.-;’

Comment on Social TV by live pc

live pc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:25:28 +0000

Great post! Do you have any predictions that you may be able to voice in order to help us understand the second point a bit more? thanks a lot

Comment on Banker’s bonuses are not the problem, just the symptom by Nick

Nick — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:37:47 +0000

And it looks like the OFT has woken up to this at long last:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10280626.stm

Hurrah for that !

Comment on Banker’s bonuses are not the problem, just the symptom by nick

nick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:50:24 +0000

Robert Peston has alluded to this same point, here The private thoughts of bankers .
The point being that the bonuses aren’t the problem. The problem is the fact that the market they operate in is fixed to the extent that they can charge these high fees with no price competition to reduce them.
The various barriers to entry of these markets need to be investigated by the competition authorities.

Comment on Solar Energy from the Sahara Desert by acnerdy

acnerdy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:51:02 +0000

the cost of Solar Cells for Solar Energy utilization has been decreasing over the past years. pretty soon, solar energy would be a more viable alternative than fossil fuels,

Comment on Just saved 35p a day on gas with no side effects by Josh Maxwell

Josh Maxwell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:31:28 +0000

Hello.

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Comment on Ocean based carbon sequestration by nick

nick — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:36:03 +0000

A quote from the National Oceanography Centre on the topic of ocean based CCS here : "This will involve large-scale field experiments tightly coupled to a new generation of sophisticated computer models. Until completed satisfactorily, the authors conclude, “…it is impossible to provide a rational judgement about whether the schemes proposed are (1) likely to be effective and (2) likely to cause unacceptable side effects”. Only then can full cost–benefit–risk analyses be performed in order to inform policy, say the researchers."