Archive for December, 2010

Living in a power station

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

If you install a solar PV system in the north of England, the models show that you’ll get the least electricity production in the winter months of November, December, and January. The combination of short days, sun low on the horizon, and cloudy skies all conspire to restrict production to around 15% of production in [...]

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There’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Mythology has it that software development thrives on caffeine, so today’s announcement that The Document Foundation has secured support for a LibreOffice software development team in Brazil can only be good news for the Foundation (for as the old song goes: There’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil). OpenOffice.org – the previous incarnation of [...]

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