A Northumberland astronomer is heading to the US next month to film a rare solar eclipse and beam it back live to the North East. Ellie MacDonald, 26, of Hexham, is travelling to Texas on April 8 on behalf of Kielder Observatory, the Northumberland attraction and educational charity. And clear skies permitting, she’ll capture the …
It somehow feels appropriate that Solar Capture Technologies, a small company with big ideas, is housed in the Brunel Building. Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the UK’s greatest innovators — a poster child of the Industrial Revolution — and as we strive to engineer a green industrial revolution today, it’s no exaggeration to …
The solar system will be recreated along the North Tyneside coast next month (March) … at a scale of 1:1 billion. The North Tyneside Solar Trail will see a series of scale models of the planets installed along an almost 6km stretch between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. And if you’re trying to wrap your head …
We increasingly live in a world where we know green is good. Only fossil-fuel polluters and petro-states tick the ‘strongly disagree’ box these days (though no one should underestimate how much they can muddy the waters of public opinion). Even football, that exemplar of conspicuous consumption in the modern era, is belatedly making efforts to …
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