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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Silvermines Hydroelectric Energy Storage Project versus batteries

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Pumped storage is cool. We have too much energy at night and not enough at peak times. So saving some electricity up is a good idea.  One su...
Monday, August 11, 2025

The best Worlde Words for the Lazy

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 If you pick early words in wordle that have a lot of the commonly used letters you are likely to get to the correct word guess faster. But ...
Friday, July 04, 2025

Grid Batteries could pay for themselves in 18 months in Ireland

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I think grid batteries could pay for themselves in 18 months in Ireland. In January I calculated this as taking 3 years.  Solar in May and J...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Lido in the micro nation of Pimlico

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I w atched passport to Pimlico. A 1949 fantasy about the ability to buy fruit, clothes etc without rationing. The post war labor government ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Euclid, Fermat, and the 65537 Reasons We Have Never Drawn Their Last Shape

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 1. Straight Edge and Compass Euclidean Constructions From the time of ancient Greece, geometers have been fascinated by what can be built u...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

Shock as Ireland goes mainly solar

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  In the Summer of 2026 there will be shock reported when solar energy supplies the majority of the power to the grid.  When utility-scale s...

Drawing the US flag

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   What happens to the US Flag they add more States They have always added more stars sincde the original 13 up to the current 50. There has...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Let's make Bee honeycomb more natural

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Honeycombs in nature are not entirely regular. In a 2016 study, Nazzi found that cell size variation in honeycomb averaged just 2.1%, with ...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

Percy Ludgate: Early Computer Pioneer and his Irish Logarithms

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  Irish Logarithms are a multiplication method invented by Irishman Percy Ludgate in 1909.  1. Why use Logarithms a logarithm transforms mu...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We have a 'Can I get a Loan?' Problem

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I made a chatbot for a bank a decade ago and one answer was getting terrible ratings from users. I looked up the questions being asked that ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Doctor Deaths in the Famine

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During the famine doctors cared that many of their number were dying. the collected data and wrote up their findings in the  The Dublin quar...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Football ball improvement is back

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There is a trade off between how fast a football goes and how much control you have on it. And football designers are always trying to get a...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Grid Battery Payback Time

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Grid batteries, at current Irish wholesale prices, would pay for themselves in 2 years with a optimal strategy and 3 with a simple one.  Thi...
Friday, December 20, 2024

2026 The start of Population deline?

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I grew up worried that the world's population would grow too much and widespread hunger would result. But I think 2026 is the year there...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Russian Tank Problem

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  If one Russian tank storage base runs out how many tanks are left in the rest? I saw a video today about how the  1295th   tank storage ar...
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