They're not something I review often if at all, this humble blog being more memoir, though stats are invariably informative and throw up the odd surprise: like the post I did about an aircraft colliding with power cables garnering 600-plus views in a day.
In contrast the papers uploaded to digital commons attract few downloads, though may make more of a difference in that they're looked at presumably with a view to imitation as against titillation.
And the takeaway from the latest stats is that there is a drift away from the designs I uploaded that were aimed at the sky, and towards those aimed at the sea instead.
The reason for this I think is that the skies are literally crowded with new concepts, principally because most inventors have yet to realise that they'll burn through cash or else crash at the regulation stage.
Boats though are different, literally and figuratively flying under the radar. Combine it with the closure of an oil-bearing strait, and I guess it concentrates the mind.
That 18th-century blogger Samuel Johnson wrote that when a man is to hang in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully... as does running out of oil.
