Some US pollsters claiming a big shift in hispanic voters away from the Democrats. IF so, massive. We'll know more in November (View Post)

Yes there are promising new technologies. Gravitational batteries (because lithium is pricey and not particularly clean). Iron rust batteries. I saw one the other day where the turbine pumped water i… (View Post)

There's me thinking it was the incredible engineering feats of Brunel & Co, along with the stunning industrial innovations like Arkwright's water thingy and Hargreaves Spinning whatsit. Plus mass… (View Post)

Senator Joe McCarthy there.... (View Post)

True but their ambivalence to the whole thing and their contempt for Western European policy generally is unnerving. (View Post)