Live at the Witch Trials

Covid-19 is long enough away now that we should look at what happened and decide what we want to to next time there is a pandemic.

In 2010 the South African World Cup had a terrible football, the Jabulani It was too smooth resulting in serious problems.

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 demand, once imports and domestic rooftop solar are included.

I made a timeline of all the people in We Didn't Start the fire when Bridget Bardot passed away.

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 next year.

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

I made a bet early in 2025 that China would reduce its coal usage for electricity in 2025.

I was in Luxembourg recently and saw 4 cars when I was there.

What do we do about a huge amount of energy no longer flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz?

Cities around the world follow Zipf's law.

Soon you will only trust people you know.

I predicted in 2024 that 10% of us would 6kg of bodyweight this year.

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

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

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.

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

Theres a rule of thumb in AI agents where they should only be able to call 40 apis.

I have made two bets on climate recently.

Pumped storage is cool.

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.

I think grid batteries could pay for themselves in 18 months in Ireland.

I watched passport to Pimlico.

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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.