After the long, warm summer came the cold, the morning temperature suddenly dropped to around freezing point. I’ve had plenty of sunshine for months, and now I’m suddenly really missing it. Today, my attention is focused on heating energy and as an engineer, my mind is already thinking about whether I could use some thermal…
On a day at the end of winter like today, one tends to pick up a bar of chocolate and chew it slowly in front of the TV. Then, when only the packaging is in the hand, one takes a closer look and realizes how many calories it contained: 560 kilocalories per 100 grams! As…
Electric cars – albeit more slowly than initially advocated by politicians – are slowly catching on in Germany. Although only a small percentage of the country’s car fleet is purely electric, more than a fifth of new cars registered in 2022 already have a purely electric powertrain. Many people are happy about this, since at…
These days, in the middle of November 2022 the population of Earth just reaches 8 000 000 000. For us humans, it is a nice round number having 9 zeros in it (having 10 fingers on our both hands, probably therefore using the base-10 (decimal) number system). Fun fact: sloths (3 fingers on one hand,…
