simonkelley.bsky.social
@simonkelley.bsky.social
Part of the problem here is all the "Person P" bollocks, intended, I assume, to make this sound formal and rigorous when it's anything but. If our legislators were trained formal thinkers, rather than English and Classics grads, they would have no problems in defining who this actually applies to.
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is mad, but the utility bill is supposed to prove your address, not your identity. You need a photo-id to prove identity. A robust ID system that proves address depends on making people register their address with the authorities and we don't do that, unlike your exemplar countries. Should we?
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We went air-to-air two years ago, to replace underfloor electric which was ruining us. No regrets, and summer aircon is surprising nice to have, even on a hill in Ireland.
August 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Start looking for a cheap source of bird nuts. You're going to need a lot!
July 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
You provide another example of your confusion here. "mw/h" means milliwatt per hour: meaningless. mWh at least makes sense; a battery which can discharge at a thousandth of a watt for an hour, but what you probably meant was MWh, a battery that can discharge at 1 million watts for an hour.
May 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Wh/kg is fine, but you used W/h, which isn't . Every character in these units MEANS something. The units we're discussing and which you clearly don't understand will be familiar to anyone with a GCSE in a science so you're visibly destroying you credibility with a large fraction of your audience.
May 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
To be concrete BESS has a power output of 1MW and can discharge at that rate for 3 hours, then its capacity is 3MWh. In this context the unit "W/h" makes no sense. What is the importance of the weight of the battery? It doesn't move, so why does the weight matter?
May 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You're confusing kW and kWh. kW is a unit of power - how fast energy is produced. kWh is a measure of how much energy is stored. You can't deduce that a battery that can produce energy at a rate of 99MW contains 355 tonnes of cells by dividing the kWh/kg ratio of a cell by the power of the battery.
May 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Junk information for an ignorant writer who doesn't understand the difference between a kilowatt and a kilowatt-hour, or that all fires involving plastics generate hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I ain't voting for no-one what doesn't know the four-colour theorem.
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
There's happy, and then there's "My program works!" happy.
April 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
It's not just the highest ground. There's a light covering in our garden at 200m near Tinahely. Fearing for the apple-blossom.
April 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Another one, which I only realised when I escaped to Ireland, is that in sensible countries, when national regulations are based on EU directives, they tell you. eg. I'd never realised that the changes to driving license categories that just silently happened in the UK were down to EU harmonisation.
March 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A grand day for our ESB-planned power cut.
March 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM