One further thought regarding passenger confidence - for any aircraft, landing is the most dangerous part of the flight, so don't forget the saying about landing a glider: Every landing is a forced landing.

You might like to research the Gas Powered Refrigerator. Not "gasoline", but many decades ago (5 or 6 or so), domestic refrigerators that ran on town gas (produced from coal) were available; and much to my amazement, at least here in the UK, they are still available for campers and caravanners. And of course if nothing else, a refrigerator is a heat pump! So in principle, an air-to-whatever heat pump should be possible. But as ever, the devil will be in the detail, and most likely the killer will be efficiency. Can you get sufficient quality heat from your thermal collectors as the energy source to replace the gas flame? I have no idea, I'm an electrical engineer.

Something like that actually happened to me. I was house-sitting for a friend who lived 300 miles away while they went on holiday, his burglar alarm phoned me to say it had detected a problem, I logged in to his CCTV whereupon Windows decided it was far more important to update itself than let me look at pictures, and maybe call the local police. This was in the days of XP, if my memory serves. Guess why I now use Linux.

A very interesting source of data here: Backblaze [^] This is not their first report, similar data is available going back a few years, IIRC. TL;DR You can't go just by manufacturer alone.

The magistrate was not impressed. Woman who left abusive note on ambulance admits public order offence | UK news | The Guardian[^] It was reported on regional TV that the woman had previous form. The neighbour whose wife was being treated said on camera that he wouldn't wish her on anyone.

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Now I'm looking for and [sic] efficient 3 phase battery solution.

Do you mean 3-phase supplied by an inverter? That's done easily enough. But by definition you cannot have 3-phase d.c. :omg: As Sasha says, the higher the voltage, the lower the line losses. Look at power tools and electric vehicles for examples - all these are 'better' (more power available, lower losses) the higher the voltage employed.

I'm an engineer who's done project management (of engineering, not software, projects). My firm has been contracted by the final customer to install some equipment. I've contracted other firms to make and install that equipment. My firm was the Main Contractor, and the firms I used were my sub-contractors. You're in exactly the same position as I was. So in real English, your firm A is a contractor to firm B. You are an employee of firm A, but in firm B's eyes, you are a contractor too. Technically, you take instructions not from firm B, but from firm A. If firm B wants something done, they (technically, clearly not in practise), give their instructions to firm A, and firm A instructs you. That should work in the other direction too: if you can't do something, you tell your manager at firm A, and they tell the customer firm B that it can't be done. My technique was normally to tell the two parties to talk directly, but to keep me informed. I guess that's what you normally do.

In which case, that's not a parking brake, it's collective pitch. :laugh:

A Gong Scourer? And you're safe if they don't know how to use Google. :-D

What about TARFU?

MIL-T-FD41 Make It Like The Flippin' Drawing For Once (From the days of pre-computer-ubiquity.)

Try here[^] particularly section 441.

I see you have fired Cannon!

Don't have the sort of camera/recorder that detects motion by comparing one video frame with the last. That sort is totally useless for outdoor use. One that I know of triggers on every raindrop that goes past at night, when the built-in IR floodlight gets refracted straight back into the camera, every bird that flies past in the day and every leaf that waves about in the wind, day or night.

I'm not a football fan, so I can't pass comment, other than to say I was brought up the other side of Aston Park to the Villa ground, and well remember hearing the roar of the crowd every other Saturday - loudest of course when Villa scored a goal. And I can still see Aston Church from where I live now.

At the time, the firm I worked for was replacing steam winders with electric, almost exclusively for the UK coal industry. I never heard where said firm's other business was, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if gold mines in SA weren't amongst their customers. (Was it Trans.....n, now defunct?)

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... Ashby de la Zouch, situated in England's Black Country.

You W H A T ? Go and learn some geography/geology. The Black Country doesn't even stretch as far north-west as Walsall, let alone Ashby. (I probably know which firm you're thinking about - I was the project engineer for a couple of mine winding engines back in the 1980s.)

Mine just meows to go out of the back door. Catflap? That's only for when I'm not there to open the door. Yup, I'm meowned.

It might be worth contacting Manchester Trading Standards[^]. If yours is the only complaint, they might not be able to do much, but they'll have Europcar on their radar.

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I can view it perfectly fine.

So can I - today :mad: Somebody must have forgotten to feed the hamsters. It's weird that it happened in three different browsers, yet today it's fine - and I've touched neither the browser nor the system settings in between. Thanks for checking.