Power cuts: what to do before the lights go out (and after)

After draining her charter boat batteries, Ali Wood realises it’s time to get to grips with batteries

For those of us who aren’t experts in off-gridding, the motorhome hook-up is a power lifeline, an umbilical cord to civilisation. Plug in to the campsite’s electricity supply and you have a pitch powe

Roger Hughes explains how he installed a powerful new source of silent AC power into his yacht

You may recall that, just before taking a break from normal subjects to address the likely technological impacts of a global war, I was idly announcing a future intention to upgrade my principal file

Marks & Spencer’s online orders have been “paused” for almost a month; Co-op has admitted the loss of customer data and other operational difficulties; even Harrods was battening down the hatches to f

It turns out that having seven whirring boxes dotted around my basement wasn’t necessarily the best answer to my storage requirements. In particular, every so often I need a nice big uninterrupted spa