Tuesday, 23 January 2018

What is a WEC?

A WEC is a wave energy converter. The European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney has a classification for different types of WECs, ranging from Attenuator to Rotating Mass converters.

Sidebar - The largest island on the Orkney archipelago (roughly 70 islands) is Mainland, derived from Old Norse Meginland.

Sunday, 7 January 2018

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Andy Serkis plays Caesar. Nassau County-born Matt Reeves directs. With a $150m budget, and $490m box office, WOPA was a financial success. Novelist Pierre Boulle created the concept underlying the franchise with his 1963 novel "La Planète des Singes" (initially released in the UK as "Monkey Planet").