Thursday, June 11, 2026

Why the 2026 World Cup Ball Has Deeper Seams

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 In 2010 the South African World Cup had a terrible football,  the Jabulani​ ​It was too smooth resulting in serious problems. The football ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Ireland goes majority Solar May 24th 2026

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Green Collective solar farm only figure was a record % At 2:30 today, Ireland’s solar share may have been about  51% of total electricity de...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Should I get an attribution here?

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I made a timeline of all the people in We Didn't Start the fire when Bridget Bardot passed away. It got popular and put in newspaper st...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

If an LLM is too expensive it won't be next year

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AI can cost more than human workers now This is an Axios headline but the tldr is that once an LLM can do your job it will undercut you the ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Irish Electricity Goes Majority Solar

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 From Greencollective I think this 29% figure (1207MW out of ) is actually close to 50% of the electricity in Ireland. In Ireland small scal...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

2 climate bets: Results are in China and World Coal in 2025

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 I made a bet early in 2025 that China would reduce its coal usage for electricity in 2025. The bet is here  and I blogged about it before h...
Friday, April 17, 2026

There are 11064 Cars in Luxembourg

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I was in Luxembourg recently and saw 4 cars when I was there. Their registration plates were 1396, 1871, 2383 and 8852 This made me wonder i...