It’s easy to presume when we see bright neon lights that they must use a lot of electricity.  The dazzling neon glow is so intense that it can be seen even in daylight and it seems logical that so much light can only be achieved by using a lot of energy.  So it is surprising to find that neon lights are actually very energy efficient.

How Neon Lights Work

I am not a scientist so this is a very simplified explanation that will probably have physicists choking on their coffee.  A traditional light bulb works …

Scoring certainly shows itself to be widely varied among different tasters and different groups of tasters. Obviously, exact score matching isn’t possible or even ideal, but it seems important that we are generally in agreement with a fairly narrow range of, say, two to three points as a two- to three-point variation can put a coffee into a different quality and corresponding price categorisation.

This group score just manifested itself in our office as we hosted a tasting of the My Virtual Coffee House Cup of Excellence (COE) coffees. Generally speaking, the entire group of …