🚨 Half of all new cars registered in Ireland in September were fully electric (49.3%)! Car sales here are concentrated in January and July, so a single month is misleading, but I pulled out the BEV sales share for July-September sales for the past years: 2024 - 14% 2025 - 22% 2025 - 35% 📈↗️👆‼️

Robbie Andrew@robbieandrew.bsky.social · last wk.

Data updated through September so far: ▸Chile ▸India ▸Ireland ▸Italy ▸Norway ▸Portugal ▸Spain ▸Sweden ▸Switzerland ▸Thailand

Nice visual pun from the headline writers @rte.ie

When the Trump Administration cancelled Tax Credits for new electric cars it reduced EV sales in the US... but when they started a war on Iran it increased global oil prices so much that global EV sales increased Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Evolution du personnage "le plus français" dans #EmilyinParis #EmilyInParis1 : sur une trottinette en libre-service sans casque #EmilyInParis2 : sur son vélo, casque sur la tête #EmilyInParis3 : sur son vélo, casque sur le guidon

30% of EU GDP growth in 2023 came from clean electrification value chains (renewables, nuclear, heat pumps, battery & thermal energy storage, insulation technologies, solar thermal, digital energy management tools & grids) Source: EU Electrification Action Plan eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

🚨 Irish solar generation dipped noticeably during the partial solar eclipse earlier this evening, bottoming out at just 8MW. Overlaying today's generation with yesterday's, we see a clear notch around 7pm when the eclipse was at its greatest 🌑 ⚡️ #SolarEclipse #SpeirGorm

Blowing up rivers to divert water to cool nuclear power plants in Romania... one of the ways power stations are being kept open during the current heatwave www.ft.com/content/06a2...

This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like in France. The Loire France’s largest river.

Fayad Mulla@fayadmulla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Die Loire, Frankreichs größter Fluss.

Is Ireland's home charging infrastructure for EVs fit for purpose? Around 30% of Irish households don't have easy access to private home charging, with policy & regulatory gaps hindering progress, writes @finorgan.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Is Ireland's EV home charging infrastructure fit for purpose?

Around 30% of Irish households don't have easy access to private home charging, with policy and regulatory gaps hindering progress

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Great to see this new EV charging hub at Bunratty, Co Clare. 8 cars can be charged at high power.

tl;dr: 1. represent the whole climate problem 2. represent the whole solution space 3. fix carbon accounting to reflect the damages of overshoot

How has the oil market balanced after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? Drop in supply from the Gulf has averaged 10 mbd after rerouting, and just five countries have absorbed 9 mbd of that: China, U.S., Japan, Brazil and South Korea. Will they keep doing it?

Abundant Wild garlic leaves Pungent woodland gift 😉 @finorgan.bsky.social

For #bikeweek here’s a thread of cycling haiku from my chapbook — Wheels within Wheels — just published by @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social and Cork City Library! #cycling #haiku #cork

Compare Leo Varadkar's ham-fisted comments on relative costs of rural and urban living www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... ...with Prof Frank Crowley's brilliantly concise summary of the issues www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Updating my bio with "amateur poet" according to Nature, one of the pre-eminent scientific journals in the world 😂

Many people helped out with this - householders, Dr Ciara Ahern, Marie Donnelly & @marcusstewart.bsky.social among them. Grateful for the input and insights www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Ireland’s retrofit reality: From ‘amazing’ home energy results to ‘miserable’ and costly experiences

Retrofitting offers cosy home and energy cost cuts but can also come with financial burdens and bureaucratic nightmares

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How Ireland dealt with the oil and energy shocks of the 1970s. By @finorgan.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How Ireland dealt with the oil and energy shocks of the 1970s

The 1973 oil crisis pushed energy into the headlines and led to massive changes across society

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“On my bike I’m a child, teenager and adult all at the same time. Sometimes I ask my friends, when did you stop cycling?” Very pleased to be launching my debut poetry chapbook on April 25th as part of @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social Get tickets! corkworldbookfest.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Cork World Book Fest@corkworldbookfest.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Another exclusive to CWBF, Fionn Rogan’s debut poetry chapbook, published as part of the Cork World Book Fest Commissions, will have its first outing tonight at Plugd Records and Café with the inimitable Mick O’Shea on spokes, cogs and puncture repair kit.

Does Ireland have enough public chargers for electric cars? Ireland's EV fleet of just over 4% of total cars is the EU average, but our 4,000 public chargers are well below the number they should be, writes @finorgan.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Does Ireland have enough public chargers for electric cars?

Ireland's EV fleet of just over 4% of total cars is exactly the EU average, but our 4,000 public chargers are well below the number they should be

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Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

"Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return" Opening sentence from MIT Report, State Of AI In Business 2025 mlq.ai/media/quarte...

6% of the car fleet in Ethiopia is electric, compared to a global average of 4%. It shows what can be done when policies such as tariffs strongly incentivise EVs and disincentivize ICEs. (low-cost electricity thanks to a large dam also helps)

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

‘Well, look, if I’m going to import the cars anyway, then I’d rather import less oil. We may as well import the one that cleans up local air quality and is cheaper to buy.’ The Great Story of the Extraordinary EV boom in Ethiopia www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom... ...and this is one of the most beautiful graphs ever!

In Europe, more heat is wasted during electricity production than is needed to heat all buildings. Fact of the day from heatroadmap.eu

Evidence from Australia shows mandatory helmets & hi-vis will reduce numbers of people cycling. Perversely, this will reduce accidents involving cyclists. But Ireland also has targets and plans to increase active travel! The Government needs to watch out for the law of unintended consequences.

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 8mo ago

All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...

I wonder what our President will make of this bill?

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 8mo ago

All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...

Dublin (pop. ~1.5 million) and Tokyo (pop. ~37 million) have the same amount of data-centres (in absolute MW terms) (source: Nat Bullard's 2025 presentation)

I do my best thinking when I'm writing. And that also includes taking notes in seminars and talks.

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Bring back the 2:1 investment priority favouring public transport over roads, say Engineers Ireland www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

Engineers seek restoration of public transport spending priority

Heavy reliance on private cars for travel cannot continue, Engineers Ireland warns

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