Blarney Brother Allen’s Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
- Lead is not dead! There will be substantial growth in the use of lead acid batteries – especially in BESS.
- Look out for the adoption of strict home or regional manufacturing requirements for stationery battery systems, particularly in the telecom, utility, and IT sectors. This will be driven by cyber security risks associated with foreign products such as chargers and monitors.
- Battery monitoring will become more of a requirement rather than an option.
- We are heading towards a time when pertinent data such as date codes, manufacturer details of compliance testing, and tracking information will be embedded in the battery unit. Are we getting near the stage where a monitor will be embedded in the battery?
- Although lithium batteries are getting a lot safer to use, there will be a few high profile fires that will drive users to other chemistries. Funding for lithium will decrease significantly.
- America will become the leading exporter of natural gas. Also, some natural gas fueled power generation plants, where possible, will be brought back on line.
- Because of the shortage of renewable energy and limited power transmission capabilities, small nuclear reactors will be planned and located near centers of population and data center hubs.
- NFPA 70 and 70E will have a lot more content regarding batteries and chargers. A big one will be the recognition of DC arc flash.
- Artificial intelligence will become as much as a disrupter than a benefit. It will facilitate scams, misinformation and deception.
- There will be less Christmas/holiday cards sent in 2025 than in the previous 50 years.
These views are not necessarily representative of those of Eagle Eye Power Solutions, but are independently shared as opinions of the author himself.
Did You Know – fun facts about Christmas and the Holiday Season
Did you know the very name “holiday” comes from the old English “Halig Daeg,” Holy Day in modern English? So, Holy Day has become Holiday, which now encompasses holidays of other faiths other than Christianity. Other adopted generic names are, “The Festive Season”, “Yuletide” and “Winter Holiday Season.” The British have a unique slang term, “Crimbo.” And then of course we have “Festivus, for the rest of us.”
Did you know if you want to celebrate Christmas early, you should go to Sweden? Here, it falls on December 24th. And if you want to stretch it out, go to Serbia, Russia or Greece where it doesn’t come around until January 7th.
Did you know that just after the First World War, around Christmas in 1914, there was a widespread truce along the Western Front? Both sides came out of the trenches to exchange greetings and gifts. On one famous occasion, a soccer match was played between the warring factions. Will this type of thing ever happen again?
Did you know when other ethnic celebrations are occurring this Holiday Season? Kwanzaa, which was developed as a celebration of African American culture is celebrated from December 26th through January 1st. This year, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah starts right on December 25 and lasts for eight nights. Sometimes a major Muslim holiday also falls around the holiday season but alas, not this year. Which means this author cannot use his usual inclusive holiday greeting of “Have a happy RammaHannaKwansMass.”
Did you know that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer started as a marketing gimmick? In 1939, a copywriter for Montgomery Ward department stores included Rudolph in a children’s story to promote the store’s brand. It is estimated that 2.4 million copies were distributed that year. Then, ten years later in 1949, Gene Autry recorded the famous song, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, and since then, the popular buck has simply “gone down in history.”
Did you know that originally called “Dunder” and “Blixem” in an 1823 Dutch publication, (translated as Thunder and Lightning), the seventh and eighth reindeers’ names have morphed into “Donner” and “Blitzen”?
Did you know you need to be careful who you kiss under the mistletoe? This holiday tradition started as an ancient Druid ritual of virility and fertility.
Did you know your favorite Christmas song “Jingle Bells” was originally written to celebrate Thanksgiving? It was originally written and published in 1850 as “One Horse Open Sleigh.” There is a commemorative plaque at 19 High Street in Medford, MA.
Whatever your belief or tradition, we wish you a Happy Holiday.
Byrne’s Traditional Holiday Fruitcake Recipe
Ingredients.
1 cup water
2 cups unbleached flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter
2 cups dried fruit (orange and lemon peel and cherries)
1/2 cup chopped nuts (almonds or walnuts)
2 large eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 large bottle Jameson’s Irish whiskey
Method.
- Liberally sample the whiskey to check for quality.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, fruit, and butter. Check the whiskey.
- Pour level cup of whiskey and sample for consistency. Repeat.
- Turn on electric mixer.
- Add sugar and mix.
- While mixer is running, check whiskey.
- Turn off mixerer.
- Break two legs, add to bowl, and chuck fruit.
- Mix with beater in your large bowel.
- Sample whiskey for tonsisticity. Repeat.
- Sift flowers and assault.
- Ensure that whiskey is ready. Sample again.
- Sift the lemon juice and strain chopped nuts.
- Add one table, spoon off the sugar into the whiskey.
- Turn off beater and butter chopped nuts.
- Grease the oven and turn the cake tin to 360 degrees.
- Drink remainder of whiskey.
- Throw up into mixing bowl and leave to simmer at a medium heat.
- Pass out for five hours.
Who the hell likes fruitcake anyhow!!!!
Happy Holidays.
