He is hoping to prepare for the cold and test his equipment at a cold chamber testing facility at Millbrook in Bedfordshire - recently used by Exmoor polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

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We get a basically homogeneous signal density in our chamber - in other words, we don't get the hot and cold spots you get in your home microwave.

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