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Welcome to my blog. I document my misadventures in science. Hope you find some interesting stuff!

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Solar PV Payback Calculator (Ireland)
Oct 21

Oct 21 Solar PV Payback Calculator (Ireland)

John Gordon

Estimate your solar PV payback period for Ireland, with your real system size, inverter limit, feed-in tariff, and more

High-voltage and Water. Do you think water is a well-understood liquid? Not even close!
Jul 17

Jul 17 High-voltage and Water. Do you think water is a well-understood liquid? Not even close!

John Gordon
Electrolysis, Water Bridge

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Biuret Reagent tests for the presence of protein. Will whole human blood, dropped in the solution, indicate positive?
Sep 11

Sep 11 Biuret Reagent tests for the presence of protein. Will whole human blood, dropped in the solution, indicate positive?

John Gordon
Blood Optics, Cell Lysis, Chemistry

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Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide into Useful Fuel. Can we extract carbon products from seawater with low-power electroylsis?
Feb 16

Feb 16 Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide into Useful Fuel. Can we extract carbon products from seawater with low-power electroylsis?

John Gordon
Electrolysis

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Towards Plasmonically enabled Optical Super-resolution Imaging
Feb 10

Feb 10 Towards Plasmonically enabled Optical Super-resolution Imaging

John Gordon
Plasmonic Acquired Image

A cheek cell is smeared onto a TEM grid and pressed agaisnt a silver microwire

Gardening is real life magic!
Feb 6

Feb 6 Gardening is real life magic!

John Gordon
Gardening, Climate Emergency

Look at these juicy plump fuckers. I bought tomotoes from the supermarket, and basically spat a seed into pot of compost. Few months later, circle of life gives me these tasty bad boys.

Best Surface Plasmon Quality Money can('t) buy
Feb 4

Feb 4 Best Surface Plasmon Quality Money can('t) buy

John Gordon
Surface Plasmon Resonance, Plasmonics

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Silver:  The curious case of the metal that improves it's electrical conductivity over time.
Jan 29

Jan 29 Silver: The curious case of the metal that improves it's electrical conductivity over time.

John Gordon
Self Annealing Effect, Plasmonics

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Towards Plasmonically Induced Cell Lysis
Jan 27

Jan 27 Towards Plasmonically Induced Cell Lysis

John Gordon
Plasmonics, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Cell Lysis, Blood Optics

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Can planting trees like our lives depended on it save us?
Jan 25

Jan 25 Can planting trees like our lives depended on it save us?

John Gordon
Carbon Dioxide, Climate Emergency

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What is the Electrokinetic effect?
Dec 22

Dec 22 What is the Electrokinetic effect?

John Gordon
Carbon Dioxide, Renewable Energy

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What can regular people do to fight the Climate Emergency?
Dec 11

Dec 11 What can regular people do to fight the Climate Emergency?

John Gordon
Carbon Dioxide, Climate Emergency

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The 100 most evil
Dec 5

Dec 5 The 100 most evil

John Gordon
Climate Emergency, Carbon Dioxide

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The Photon Drag effect
Dec 4

Dec 4 The Photon Drag effect

John Gordon
Photon Drag Effect, Plasmonics

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1.5 Volt battery teardown for carbon electrode and ion exchange membrane
Dec 3

Dec 3 1.5 Volt battery teardown for carbon electrode and ion exchange membrane

John Gordon
Battery Technology

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The Seawater Battery
Nov 23

Nov 23 The Seawater Battery

John Gordon
Battery Technology, Climate Emergency

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Can a free electron absorb a photon?
Oct 5

Oct 5 Can a free electron absorb a photon?

John Gordon
Electron, Photon

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