We've just published this in Energy Economics: Sarnecki, M. & Burke, N. (2026). "Bitcoin Mining as Supply-Side Flexibility in Irish Wind Energy Integration" In 2024, EirGrid dispatched down 10.1% of Ireland's available wind. In 2025, 11.4%. That is clean power we could have generated but were not able to use. Can a co-located Bitcoin miner turn some of it into revenue? Paper below 👇

Educated up to Ph.D., I've fully progressed through the Dunning-Kruger rollercoaster into an expertise in energy, where I believe I teach it competently, and I now earn a decent living from that. However, to my shame, my biggest mistake in life was avoiding the adult requirement to deeply understand what exactly money is, how it works, how we are taught nothing of value on it, and I'm still working to recover from that deficiency to this day. I do however hope that in the future my kids wont need to understand money in the same way, as they'll just earn, spend and save in the hardest money there ever has been: bitcoin.

Green light given to 600ac solar farm in Kildare https://www.independent.ie/farming/news/green-light-given-to-600ac-solar-farm-in-kildare/a1740791946.html

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Martin Luther monument, Worms, Germany, erected in 1868.

Twitter's so glitchy and keeps crashing. TG for nostr 😁

bitcoin is a store of prosperity

I'm a big fan of renewables but we cannot escape the reality that fossil fuel utilisation has been the single most successful way in which poverty has been crushed over the past century, even in the face of a population explosion (driven by energy prosperity). Climate fanaticism has become a doom cult.

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What happens if the central bank tightening causes a gdp contraction, asset values crushed, major unemployment, but CPI remains stubbornly high as it's a supply issue, not a demand one. 🤔