March 28, 2008 – 12:15 am
ESB, the incumbent Irish energy company, are not renowned for being innovative but today they shocked everyone when they announced that they are going on a capital expenditure program worth €22 billion!
This has got to be the largest announced investment by a single company in Ireland in the history of the state.
Why am I reporting […]
March 27, 2008 – 11:14 am
I saw an article in the New York Business section yesterday which reported that Richard Branson hosted a high powered get together of some of the world’s top businessmen to discuss climate change. Amongst the attendees were former British prime minister Tony Blair, Google’s Larry Page, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, Vinod Khosla, Better Place PLC.’s Shai […]
Via Tim O’Reilly today I came across Saul Griffiths‘ highly informative Wattzon.org site.
The site starts out by informing us that
The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less […]
March 14, 2008 – 11:20 am
Ireland is famous for its picturesque green landscapes. However, climatologists think that our beautiful landscape may be under serious threat if the world continues to be profligate in its carbon emissions.
According to the recently released Changing Shades of Green report (1.8mb pdf)
Ireland’s rich, green scenery may fade to brown, its potato crop may again whither, […]
