Combined Heat and Power

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Shewn. Not much used these days.

[Toby]

Not so, one of our directors thought it would be a good idea to paint the whole interior of our new office grey after a visit. Matt grey, without the stainless steel & glass or flash stuff. And a horrible green sludge filled rainwater pond rather than a hi-tech lake. Hmm thanks Ron.

[G&M]

Been here before. IMM is convinced that all the Ericsson patents on cellular technology were invalidated by a Tomorrow's World program which was probably based on "Mr Blue Sky" himself at BT Martlesham cobbling his own version of a Star Trek communication and claiming it worked.

First ones were in boats in Scandanavia. Then in fixed kiosks on islands.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Right. By mobile, I meant something you could just about carry around with you. ;-)

[G&M]

The Ericsson W10 I think it was called. 1983/4 ? Size of a breezeblock and batteries lasted minutes when in use.

Fujitsu then introduced a range of radio ICs in 1986 which revolutionised mobile design by reducing power consumption massively. These were used by most/all major players until GSM appeared.

[Stuart Millington]

FWIW I completed their enquiry form after reading this and got a letter back today. Their, revised, planned launch date is Spring 2007 ;)

[IMM]

[G&M]

Were you there ? No. Right shut up then !!

Q : what's the second biggest waste of bandwidth on Usenet ? A : Spam

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Ian Stirling writes

DiMM's read the brochure?

[N. Thornton]

People are increasingly talking about doing that with solar PV too. For whoever is thinking of going PV, it is very very expensive compared to mains.

Regards, NT

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The wonderful world of IMM. Thinks mobile phones were around before electric drills...

[Owain]

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote | The wonderful world of IMM. Thinks mobile phones were around | before electric drills...

Today's schoolchildren probably think that Nelson texted NGLND XPCTS ...

(which in a way he did of course)

Owain

[G&M]

The thing is IMM can't tell Sci-Fi from reality and Dan Dare (or Buck Rogers) had communicators, whereas we had to wait for Jon Pertwee's Dr Who for the Sonic Screwdriver.

Now if there was ever a Sci-Fi gadget that needed inventing for the DIY'er, that's it.

[IMM]

Fascinating. Two droids communicating with each other.

[G&M]

Hmm. IMM attempt at humour.

Don't give up the day job. (whatever that is)

[Lurch]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:53:06 +0100, "G&M" strung together this:

Clown in a travelling circus? Cuts plastic pipe with a rusty breadknife and shows people a bedsit with 2 combi's to howls of laughter from the audience?

[G&M]

Thing is he comes across as sounding quite knowledgeable and I used to consider his suggestions - until he starting pontificating about my own area of expertise.

[Bill Brush]

Naah. Rent boy.

[IMM]

Which you are not good at.

[IMM]

Wow....