Lovely Scops Owl in Tsendze Rustic Camp in Kruger Park. Tsendze is one of my favourite camps in the park. It is is camping only with no electricity (solar for the lights in the bathrooms) and gas for hot water. If you want to get away from everything Tsendze is the place to go to.
Marta Baltruszewicz, University of Leeds As people around the world escape poverty, you might expect their energy use to increase. But my research in Nepal, Vietnam, and Zambia found the opposite: lower levels of deprivation were linked to lower levels of energy demand. What is behind this counter-intuitive finding? After all, the prevailing strategy to…
The big media companies and their cronies are getting more and more desperate to try save their totally outdated business model. Modern computers make it ridiculously easy and cheap to copy and distribute any media. The media companies are however trying very hard to overcharge people for what they can do very easily themselves. Most…
I get lots of e-mail, about 300 messages a day (excluding spam). Ok admittedly I don’t really have to deal with all of it immediately but if you let it go you very soon have thousand of e-mails waiting in you INBOX. For years I used a mail client called Mutt. This was mostly because…
For about a month ads appeared in my Facebook timeline trying to sell alternative energy solutions. They pushed the Tesla Powerwall as a good solution because it is “pretty”. For a technical person “pretty” is very low on the list of reasons why you will buy something that will be bolted onto your garage wall….
WordPress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised). I have created this blog about a month…
An ambitious new project is hoping to help clean the world’s oceans with a trash collector that is reportedly the longest floating structure in recorded world history. Back in 2013 TrueActivist reported that a 19-year-old developed a plan to clean up the world’s oceans in just 5 years, removing 7,250,000 tons of plastic. However, last…