What’s New
The most recent significant changes on this website
Completely new:
On AI – A Conversation with Friends (April 2025)
Two photos I took in 2006 of a young Maran hen and a young cockerel – apparently taking a close look at me, or the camera. (January 2025)
Two photos I took in 2005 of an Indian dragonfly and an Indian relative of bindweed. (December 2024)
An additional (very) short story in The Temple at Zelalie, Tiger and Pig – this one by my wife. (December 2024)
Three old videos of me speaking – one at a hustings; one (Greens’ Policies) made for The People’s Politics, a group encouraging young people to take an interest in politics; and one (When Sea Level Rises) at a poetry reading group, about the dodgy future of nuclear power stations – that have been on youtube linked from this site for years, are now hosted on my own site. This avoids the annoying ads popping up ahead of them, and the annoying habit of youtube appending some other rubbish after them. Also the text of these speeches at Video text and Hustings speech text) (20th July 2024).
Major rewrites, updates, or extensions:
Two new sections (Pumped High-density Liquid and Underground Compressed Air) on my Energy Storage Overview page (1st February 2025).
A major revamping of my Energy Storage Overview page, and my Underwater Compressed Air page (18th July 2024).
A major revamping of my Underwater Compressed Air: Potential Freshwater Sites page, changing some of the assumptions about changes of water levels in lakes, and correcting a couple of errors (22nd January 2024).
A major revamping of my Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage Engineering page, to improve clarity (21st January 2024).
Small but significant updates:
An article I wrote for ALPSP’s Learned Publishing in 1996, that was always mentioned on my Publications page, is now actually linked to: Electronic publishing: What the Physiological Society is doing (24th August 2024)
The little page about Cookies explains what’s not been going on...(11th August 2024)
A new link to another article, Dounreay decommissioning date ‘never achievable’ says Caithness councillor, in the John O’Groat Journal on my Dounreay page. (28th March 2024)
A new link to an article, Employees claim Dounreay is in 'freefall' as staff morale hits 'all-time low', in the John O’Groat Journal on my Dounreay page. (29th February 2024)
A new link on my Miscellaneous Links page – to an article in the Grauniad about my old friend Nicholas Saunders (RIP 1998). (25th January 2024)
A new diagram on my Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage Engineering page (20th January 2024).
Broken links etc. fixed:
None recently. (If you do notice any such issues, do please let me know – email cliveksemmens@gmail.com.)