Was he referring to the end of the Permian, aka the "Great Dying"? That was a little while ago now. (View Post)

Penalty: rebuild it exactly as it was, then have change of use planning permission refused. [On top of any other punishment] (View Post)

[Spoiler] The visitor was the ghost. (View Post)

. I would have thought that only the method could be patented? It is like trying to patent a nuclear bomb though. There's no way China is going to say, oh dear, that's a shame, they won… (View Post)

Yes. With a motor you could make it much smaller for the same amount of power and at a greater efficiency. Again, there's experiments afoot with cryogenic superconducting motors (with the ultima… (View Post)