Hoop stress would be a big issue: the greater the diameter of a pressurised cylinder, the greater the stresses in the cylinder walls. which is why you generally don't get pressurised cylinders with v… (View Post)

If it was a gasworks site, there may well be oodles of contamination. Especially if it is an old coal gas site. Lovely stuff like benzene, heavy metals and tar. A hundred years ago, if not much more … (View Post)

I was chatting to a greybeard about this a few weeks back, and he said a significant change happened around the Dot-Com bubble crash. Many new tech firms went from "Here's a prototype, we need m… (View Post)

Of course he does. And there will be people telling him that, if it was not obvious. But he isn't. (View Post)

Elon Musk is promoting the "White British" shite again. It seems he has so mucked himself up over interfering in US politics, he's now interfering in ours. With exactly the amount of accura… (View Post)