The speaker will be Professor Geoffrey Allen, Interface Analysis Centre, University of Bristol and the subject of his talk will be:
“The Government has never had much of an energy policy beyond extravagant assertions that it would make ‘renewables come of age’. Though heavy subsidies are given to wind turbines, nuclear power will not go away but its role may never be more than marginal. Barring major technological developments it will continue to be a creature of politics rather than economics and this will limit the overall size of the industry.
The UK has the most ambitious carbon emission targets. Energy costs continue to soar yet there is only meagre progress towards averting a threatened British energy crunch a decade hence. This presentation will be an edited version of a series of lectures given to Earth Scientists at the University of Bristol reviewing the British Nuclear programme in relation to that of the French and considers the status of alternative energy sources – tidal, wind, coal, gas and oil in meeting national needs over the next few decades.”
Geoffrey Allen is Professor of Material Science, Founder Director of the University of Bristol’s Interface Analysis Centre, Sir William Penney Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.
An invitation from Satish Kumar, Founder and Visiting Fellow and Jon Rae, Head of Schumacher College
We are writing to invite you to a very special event for Schumacher College in London and we very much hope that you will be able to join us.
This summer, on 17 July, 6pm-8pm, Schumacher College invites you to the Impact Hub in Kings Cross, London, to hear about the future of Schumacher College, its people and place. We will share our plans to develop a second campus at Dartington, build our bursary fund, and develop Schumacher Worldwide – our network to deepen the impact of alumni and partners.
We are hoping that you will be able to continue to show your generous support by connecting the College with your own important networks of suitable trusts, foundations and individuals who might like to attend this event and learn about the College.
Next year will be the 25th anniversary for the College. Founded by the Dartington Hall Trust as a centre for deep ecology, social action and transformative learning we have established a global reputation for a radical educational model that cultivates the whole person – head, hearts and hands.
We are attracting an ever growing number of leaders, change makers and activists looking to combine personal growth with disruptive social innovation that tackles the causes of inequality and the destruction of the living planet. As David Orr says of the College we are an ecological design centre focused on the both the know-how and the know-why.
To date we have welcomed over 15,000 individuals to the College from over 75 countries onto our short and longer courses including our postgraduate programmes in Holistic Science, Economics for Transition and Ecological Food Systems. This year we have launched our postgraduate in Ecological Design Thinking and our own apprenticeship in sustainable horticulture.
In responding to the growing demand we look to maintain the human scale of our learning with the establishment of a second campus, underpin diversity through an expanded bursary fund and deepen impact through our alumni and network. This focus on People and Place is part of our wider strategy of intent: Rooting in Place, Networking Worldwide
Increase the socio-economic and cultural diversity of our student intake by increasing our bursary fund with particular focus on Southern Europe, South America, South and East Asia.
Create a second campus at the heart of the Dartington Estate so we can maintain human-scale learning whilst responding to the demands of increasing numbers wanting to take a very different approach to life and livelihoods.
Expand our digital network for connecting, collaborating and learning amongst alumni and others to deepen our impact and open access to the College’s valuable learning materials.
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in London in July. Please RSVP to Lou Rainbow, Head of Fundraising, Events and Promotions. lou.rainbow@schumachercollege.org.uk
It’s better than the V1 that was utter junk and a tad better than V2 which had a rigid signal meter. Can make high power in legal format so no need to export modify it. You can achieve 2.6khz audio on FM with adjustment. Speaker wire fragile, I buy mine straight from CRT online shop and so far the V3 is the best. Others were mostly software issues.
Like all CB there are other brands better, Team Mobile Minicom as example amongst others but doesn’t make the extra watts in UK band.
HI KAOS ,did as you said and i am pleased i did i bought one and i amWell pleased with the radio and the service i got from jan at the 4x4 centre , gooderstone , nr Kings Lynn , norfolk was seconed to none very good value for the money .
I prefer the Albrecht AE 6110 V3 George,has a green light when squelch is broken whilst out mobile,as it is far easier to see than a tiny rx on the screen
Don't know where you can buy kits but they're easy enough to build from scratch, Plenty info online, See the link below.
As bc73 said, I didn't know there was such a thing, I thought that they were a diode and a couple of resistors, 95% of the cost being the meter and case.
2W/0.5W output, USB charging, fiddle-proof controls [hopefully]. I think with the 0.5W output it might even be legal as well!
The manual comes in what must be my favourite file format ever, a pile of JPEGs with chinese filenames that unrar chokes on [7Zip was fine]:
From one of those tedious "unboxing" videos it looks like it emits an annoying low battery message every 10s once it gets down to 25%. Hmm. Not so sure any more...
They are cheap to replace, easy to use and work alright. ideal for the kids to use IMHO. Ideal for the kids checking back to you on a camp site or similar or shouting them back for food etc. brilliant for them to play with amongst themselves too. :-)
Also from the same video, the charging plug might be USB-shaped but it's 4.2v so it's not really USB. Another one for the "Hmm" list.
Me too, I think they're great for the price. Did you know they do them in different colours too - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Origina ... 72273.html
These radios work remarkably well by any standards. There is a school that is 2 - 3 miles away as the crow flies from me that has purchased a load of them. They have been programmed with a mixture of 446 and 'other' frequencies shall we say. Hard to believe the signal strength I get some days from them!