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2025

On Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption (2025-07-07)

Early modern grain elevators: “listen to the counsels of the American engineers” (2025-06-01)

Lanark to Sloy - a look at early Scottish Hydro (2025-04-21)

Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python (2025-02-02)

2024

Santa's Sustainability Audit: Scope 1, 2 and 3 (2024-12-08)

A week at the International Electrotechnical Commission (2024-11-03)

Reverse-engineering the world's oldest working mechanical clock (2024-10-03)

Migration and modernism: Nikolaus Pevsner (2024-08-04)

2023

Lighting and Sustainability: Engineering Change (2023-03-06)

2022

Code of Practice for luminaire remanufacture (2022-09-21)

A dive into remanufacturing (2022-03-01)

2021

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2020

Entering a new geopolitical era: The transition to renewables and its geopolitical implications (2020-01-26)

Heat Networks: basics (2020-01-22)

Lithium (2020-01-06)

2019

An Open Letter to the Planet (2019-09-20)

Concerns regarding the Global Trade in Clothing (2019-01-22)

2018

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2017

Intuitive design: shower thoughts (2017-10-04)