Month: December 2006

Sigh. One last control experiment. Put the baking soda in the control jar. Oops, the control jar still doesn’t heat as fast as the other one (which is now effectively the "control"). I’ve got something which appears to be sensor/jar dependent but in an odd fashion. I did a check before running the experiment by …

Science Demonstrations, more ways to failRead More

I found an interesting paper on the web by Lueddecke, et al.¹ that had a classroom demonstration of the effect of CO₂ on the greenhouse effect. It sounded so simple. Hah!

After a long incubation period, I’ve finally moved the test web site over. It meant throwing away a lot of stuff I had custom written in PHP to run the web site, but the move was long overdue as trying to keep the information up-to-date was conflicting with having to mess with code on the …

astrofoto.org has a new lookRead More