A new hydrogen project is being launched in Orkney to utilise peak energy outputs from renewables through production of hydrogen fuel for transport. In a way, this will be reviving an old wartime industry, as Michael McLaughlin...
Category - Frontiers 2017
The stars from my back door
When Eric Walker asked his wife for a telescope for his birthday back in 2004 he got just a little more than he bargained for. Instead of the small portable item he had envisioned – something he could stick in his backpack when...
Gravitational waves – and the Papay connection
Three men are recognised as the pioneers of the LIGO system for detecting gravitational waves, one...
The Orkney Yole
Till well into the 1960s the yole played a major part in the lives and livelihood of most Orcadians...