Curious, Inquisitive, Wired and just a little chaotic — exploring technology, finance, energy, and intelligence
I moved to the U.S. and became obsessed with water towers. It turns out these quirky town icons quietly shift up to 30 GWh of load every day. No lithium. No algorithms. Just gravity doing the work.
DER is scaling fast, and the risks are catching up. Software needs smarter optimisation and risk managers need to step up, or we will repeat the same mistakes finance made when models grew faster than governance.
Did you know the first battery could be over 2,000 years old? Hidden in the sands near Baghdad, this ancient clay jar may have carried the world’s first spark of electricity.
AI can write, plan, and predict but can it run the grid? This piece explores where it’s already adding value, where it still fails, and why the future of a “self-healing” grid will depend as much on people and infrastructure as on algorithms.
Nikola Tesla never let go of the question: if music rides the air, why not power? The story traces his early experiments at Colorado Springs and Wardenclyffe and shows how that vision echoes today in wireless charging, inductive transfer, and cautious power-beam trials
A drawer once full of tangled cables gave way to a single universal connector. The piece looks at how USB-C reduced friction, sped up charging, and what its success teaches about the value of standards, from consumer tech to home energy.
Smarter meters on paper, stubborn results in practice. We explain what AMI is, what ‘2.0’ promises, and why those expectations clash with reality. We unpack where advanced meters trip in real homes and why a partner-first approach works better than cramming everything into one box