I got in the habit of riding my bike to work every day while visiting my mum up in the Coromandel and I’m finding it a rather hard habit to shake. The problem is, now my work is 25 km away instead of 5 km away. Could an ebike help with this situation?
Month: February 2018
Excuse me, but why does anybody need solar power batteries?
Today I intend to lay out a system that works well in harnessing the power of the sun, without the need for any costly solar power batteries.
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Cafe Overload In Coastal Tourist Locations
It has been a busy summer and Whangamata has just recently opened its 26th eatery, according to TripAdvisor. Despite the flowering of new businesses, there seems almost relentless demand to be serviced. Hour long waits are very common and customers readily (if not happily) accept them during peak times over summer.
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Energy Transfers In The Commercial Kitchen
For the past few months, while I’ve supported my mother through a sickness, I’ve been working as a prep chef in a busy commercial cafe in a coastal town. My main observation has been of how energy transfers within a commercial kitchen. It is one of those things that I’m sure no one else would find remotely interesting, but that fascinates me intensely. In a busy commercial kitchen, not a single joule is wasted. Everything is on just for long enough to deliver the desired result, and then it is shut off. A busy commercial kitchen seems to operate on a fine line between careful resource management and deft resources as the chef arranges a wide array of components in the last few seconds before the plating.
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