The world's first large-scale grid battery installation went online only 7 years ago. Sometime next year, global grid-connected battery strorage capacity will exceed that of pumped hydro storage. 📈

The Programme of SPHERIC 2024 Berlin has been finalised! dive-solutions.de/spheric2024#pr…

Another massive performance by Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway's ultra-efficient @theGeec in the European arena. The car scored 346 km/kWh after 100+ km. Highlights this year: reliability, data analysis, precise aggressive low-speed race-driving. A brilliant School of Engineering at University of Galway engineering student team.

Today we celebrate the 160th birthday of one of the great engineers of the 20th century, Michael "Chief" O'Shaughnessy (1864-1934), an engineering graduate of Queens College Galway

Open letter to the world: “We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and students and the insistence on our future in the face of all current attempts to erase us” aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

All you fascists bound to lose (your deposit)

Ireland, a country with a population of 5.1 million has THREE cities among the 100 most congested cities in the world. Dublin (16), Galway (37), and Cork 80). One more lane, one more road won’t fix this, only an unprecedented paradigm shift to public and active transport will.

Civil Engineering Professor William Bindon Blood was known as Ireland’s 1st cyclist, commuting to campus on a self-built tricycle in 1852. Tricycles were used by women & older men who found them safer and more comfortable than ‘high-wheelers’. #UniversityofGalway #FunFactFriday

Best wishes to Rhasidat in her race tonight. We are all so proud here in St Marks Senior School. Here is a photo of her competing in the CLG Primary Sports in Morton Stadium Santry. She proves that you should always have the confidence to dream big. Rhasidat Adeleke RTÉ Sport

The comments in the @Guardian piece are mine @ElonMusk. If you've got a beef, take it up with me.

Meanwhile, my kids are robbed of their independence because we design the public realm around the need to own a car.

So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of Foo Fighters Foo Fighters UK He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland. Lorcan was out hitchhiking wearing his nirvana top when Dave stopped

Mine too.

“We could have facilitated more data centres without threatening the power grid if only the State had built more fossil fuel power plants” - maybe the Irish data centre industry should rethink its pitch. irishtimes.com/business/2024/…

“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”😮

Here's what happens with you suddenly move a wing. Look at that cool vortex! youtu.be/2n_0EkCpqTE?si…

Aurora over Menlo Castle, Galway (22:10, 12/9/2024).

what's the matter with the other 44%?