Window squeeners Mabel Farrell Byrne, left, and Taiga Teir from The Embassy School, Dublin, launching Norma Smurfit’s Spring Clean for Charity Sale on Sunday March 11 in the RDS in aid of St Vincent de Paul and Focus Ireland.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

The former home of Quinn Direct on O’Connell Street, Dublin, this afternoon. The US insurance giant Liberty Mutual took control of the group in November and is currently replacing the signage with the Quinn name coming down from the insurer’s offices in Cavan and Blanchardstown, Dublin.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

And here’s how:

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of science, a panel on energy storage included a talk by Igor Shvets, a researcher at Trinity College in Dublin. Shvets is involved in the planning for an audacious scheme called Spirit of Ireland that would turn large areas of the west coast of that country into a renewable energy powerhouse.

If the plan is rolled out to its full extent, Ireland could even end up sending its electricity under the Irish Sea to the UK.

Yay.

Will all of this work? Everything about it is pretty mature technology, so there’s technically no reason why it shouldn’t. The thing that strikes me as as the biggest concern is the one thing we don’t have any experience with: the large scale storage of salt water in elevated reservoirs. There would seem to be a significant chance that it will seep into the local environment, with results that are difficult to predict.

Oh.

Turning Ireland’s Water And Wind Into Energy Exports (John Timmins, Ars Technica)

The London Eye, Burj Al Arab in Dubai, Table Mountain in South Africa, the Empire State Building in New York and the Sky Tower in Auckland will be joined for the first time by Niagara Falls and the TV tower in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz in going green.

 

Head of Tourism Ireland Niall Gibbins launching the St. Patrick’s Day tourist extravaganza this afternoon.

Hang on.

Niagara Falls?

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

UPDATE:

‘Beauty and The Geek’ pants. No really, that’s what they’re called. Pants with fully integrated keyboard, mouse and speakers.

Designer Erik de Nijs of Nieuwe Heren tells WebProNews:

“The idea was that you could log in to your computer and control it without sitting in a closed environment behind your desk.” It’s a pretty futurist concept and, if any of you have ever seen any videos of people at work inside the Googleplex or Facebook’s offices, you’ve probably noticed that employees are constantly moving around or using their computers while standing up.

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