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The perils of using scheduled posts and forgetting to fill in the details in the template.

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one of the reasons to have a property tax is to act a counter pressure to increasing property prices. That doesn't work if every time prices go up we just change the thresholds. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

While waiting for a parade to start I spotted this great example of roofs with not enough solar. The marginal cost of covering the rest of these roofs with solar would have been minimal.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This thread on the insanity of hippos is great.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

On one hand while house air filtering is great and I like the resulting air quality. On the other hand the monthly filter cleaning is an unfun task. I live beside a 100+ hectare park near the sea in Dublin so I likely have better than average air quality but it still is a surprise how dirty it is.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday was our first net power positive day of the year. Not too shabby for February in Ireland.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Today I decided to watch David Lynch's The Straight Story with my 10 year old. It will probably be another 10 years before he can see any other David Lynch film

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

In 2022 the 12sqm limitation on domestic solar installs was removed but ESB still impose a 6kva limit on microgeneration despite most homes having a 12 or 16kva connection with out having to go through an expensive (€1k) approval process, the nc-7. After Eowyn This limit should be increased.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Since storms are going to be a thing for the foreseeable future we can assume that there will be power disruptions for folks living in remote locations. Solar & battery plus a small generator would make these a non event for folks living in rural locations.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment