Some people are just ahead of their time. In State Papers released under the 30 year rule, this nugget from Seán McBride: Nobel Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride wrote to the Taoiseach in April 1978, expressing concern about the nuclear plant plans and urging an examination of alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind, [...]
Re the dreary turf war between Luas and Irish Rail over Broadstone, which according to today’s Irish Times Luas and the RPA have won (sub. required), what a pity there isn’t the imagination in Dublin that the Brazilian city of Curtiba was fortunate enough to have in the person of Jaime Lerner. With maverick flair [...]
We all know the one about how, if every bulb in the country was changed to economic cfls (or leds, when the time comes), we could close down a power station or two. But this is something that has only recently been discovered. It turns out, that if all United States power companies were to [...]
The Irish Times has been running a Negotiations for Government section in their letters page, so I thought I’d send a brief note: Peak Oil 2010. End of Story. . Just that. I don’t think it made it from the huge pile the editor undoubted receives. Or maybe the editorial staff, in common with most [...]