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Irish Independent
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
China planning a nuclear power plant on the Moon
Country wants to fuel space station it is building with Russia and have permanent base Eduardo Baptista ©Reuters Today at 21:30 China is considering building a nuclear plant on the Moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) it is planning with Russia, a presentation by a senior official showed yesterday. China is aiming to become a major space power and land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, and its Chang'e-8 mission aims to lay the groundwork for the construction of a permanent manned lunar base.
RTÉ News
22-04-2025
- Climate
- RTÉ News
Ireland 'incredibly lucky' to escape devastating floods during Storm Éowyn
The country was "incredibly lucky" to avoid devastating flooding during Storm Éowyn as new research shows if it had hit Ireland a week earlier, sea levels could have reached over 5m above normal in some parts. Researchers from the University of Galway said the data recovered from the hours around Storm Éowyn "shows just how narrowly tens of thousands of people avoided tidal inundation and threats to cities, towns and coastal communities." During the storm on 24 January, record-breaking wind gusts of 184km/h were recorded, causing an estimated €200 million in damage and leaving 768,000 electricity customers without power. The highest 10-minute wind speed reached 142 km/h at the Atmospheric Research Station in Ceann Mhása, Co Galway. The study from the University of Galway found Éowyn "generated the highest storm surges ever recorded at key locations on Ireland's western seaboard". Dr Niall Madden, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at University of Galway, said the country was "incredibly lucky". "The worst of the storm surge coincided with a low and ebbing tide. Had it hit just a few hours earlier, on a full or flooding tide, Galway could have been dealing with a double disaster of record high winds and record high flooding," he said. Dr Indiana Olbert, of the School of Engineering, said the study also "shows that a rise in mean sea level rise will significantly increase the risk of coastal flooding in the future". "It is hard to imagine how narrowly we avoided unprecedented storm surge flooding and an inundation, in particular in towns and cities," Dr Olbert said. The research team analysed sea level information from 47 datasets and found levels were "more than 2.5m above the normal predicted tidal water level". The storm surge peaked at 2.60m above the normal predicted astronomical tide at Galway Port and 2.70m above tidal level at Shannon Airport. The highest surge recorded along the western coastline was 2.99m above tidal level at Limerick Docks. "Had these surges occurred a week earlier during the high water spring tide, the water levels would have been much higher, with data predicting that the water level at Galway Port would have reached 4.96m, Limerick Dock at 5.85m, and Shannon Airport at 5.43m above mean sea level, inundating the areas," the study found. Dr Olbert said the research also found "the drivers of flooding in Ireland show that the anthropogenic climate change - that's the changes related to human activity - will drive more extreme rainfall and generate more intense flooding. "Such changes are likely to continue with further warming. In future we will witness more extreme weather events that will result in devastating floods," she added.
Time Out
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Massive video projections are coming to the Manhattan Bridge and Dumbo
If you find yourself strolling through Dumbo in the next month, make sure to stay until sundown. Starting this month and continuing until the end of May, the iconic neighborhood is bringing back its large-scale projection series, which will display huge works of art on the Manhattan Bridge and the BQE, all for free. The Dumbo Projection Project began displaying this season's artwork earlier this month and will continue on through May 25 from dusk til 11pm, Wednesdays through Sundays. If you're looking to find the perfect spot to see the art, make sure you have a clear line of vision towards the Manhattan Bridge on both the Pearl Street and Adams Street sides, as well as along the BQE at Susan Smith McKinney Seward Park. From now until April 27, you'll be able to catch a glimpse of SPACE, an exhibition that explores space in its many manifestations, including what it means to be in space, to have space, and to be a part of space. If you want to know what you're looking at specifically, here it is: On the Manhattan Bridge, you'll see Runway: From the Mars Desert Research Station and Does it work on Mars? by Juan José Cielo. Then, on the BQE in Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park, you'll catch a glimpse of artwork called Letters to Home II by Leonardo Madriz. If you plan to check out the projections from May 1 to May 25, the exhibition on display will be Unexpected Delight!, an installation created by the Interactive Telecommunications Program graduate students at NYU. As the name suggests, the theme of those projections is "unexpected delight," which aims to surprise passerby and encourage them to marvel at the spaces we occupy and as well as the infrastructure around us. It's a fancy way of saying prepare to be gagged by the art. If you want more in-depth information on the art on display, projection tours will be given monthly during the neighborhood's First Thursday Gallery Walks. Details will be posted on the Dumbo Improvement District's website.
