Are women just sexist?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dont be silly.

Ther donation is strictly for the web site and all data is acknowledged and is free.

[The Natural Philosopher]

You would of courese be completely wrong.

The site was shown a year or two ago on a BBC program about the closure of a coal plant where the engineers said 'its better than our own tools' and I have given permission for it to be used as part of an open university course as well. Schools use it as a source of 'real data' on science courses.

I am not going to betray confidences as to where the users that have identifiable IP addressses come from, but there are some serious people monitoring the site and downloading the data - big multinationals and firms trading in energy markets.

For example.

In a given day between 5,000 and 30,000 distinct IP addressss visit the site, and about 80,000 was the record before it died of low RAM

It's been used as a reference site and recieved mentions in far too many places to mention.

It remains the most comprehensive dataset on wind generated energy for statistical analysis anywhere in the world.

[pamela]

Women may be interested in engineering but Gridwatch is a geek site.

I can't see other women donating to a geek cause. Women separate work and home more than men do and following your site eats into home time.

[pamela]

That's very good. Hopefully men buy also something useful from the tool catalogues.

[Vir Campestris]

Once upon a time knitting was mostly male.

Andy

[Vir Campestris]

I would say that - But there's an overlap.

More men are geeks. More men are over 6ft.

But there are some women in those groups.

Andy

[Ranchak]

Not relevant to what interests most now.

[whisky-dave]

No mention of shoes or handbags ! WTF does he expect ;-)