Live at the Witch Trials

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

 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...

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...

What do we do about a huge amount of energy no longer flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz? " Households urged to cut fuel use as Irela...

Cities around the world follow Zipf's law. The second city is a certain percentage smaller, third smaller again etc. With Dublin at 592...

Soon you will only trust people you know.   I have been learning a fun programming language called Gleam . And I wanted to read a book on it...

I predicted in 2024 that 10% of us would 6kg of bodyweight this year . Here is how an even bigger effect might happen. GLP-1 drugs start goi...

  In 1865, the English economist  William Stanley Jevons  observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal use...

 In Cogitosus’s Life of St Brigid the Virgin translation Liam de Paor St Brigid does a fair division into 3 equal parts. The algorithm used ...

I remember hearing years ago that real cheeseburgers could only happen after industrialisation, greenhouses and freezing as the ingredients....

I made a graph of when people in "We didn't start the fire" were born, did the act referenced in the song and died. Because Br...

An Irish woman named Emma invented an the  Animaniacs  song listing the Countries of the World and jumped whenever a country that hasn't...

Theres a rule of thumb in AI agents where they should only be able to call 40 apis. After that confusion between different systems becomes a...

 I have made two bets on climate recently.  I believe coal usage for electricity by China will be lower in 2025 than it was in 2024. Using ...

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...

 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 ...

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...

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

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