Archives November 2014

This year the amusingly inexact Exacta Weather has advised us via The Express (who love a good weather story, or indeed any weather story) that “a notable period of exceptional cold and significant snow should be taken seriously throughout the latter part of December and into January”. This is partly the result of sulphur being emitted …

Whether your car is cruising down the motorway at 70mph or bobbing about in town, the engine is generating heat – well it’s not called a combustion engine for nothing. In fact only about 28% of the thermal energy released by burning fuel in the engine is available for driving the car; 42% is lost …