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Ireland energy and water infrastructure is struggling to cope with demand and that will be taken into account by potential foreign investors, a watchdog has warned. Photograph: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/BloombergIreland faces serious reputational risk over “persistent deficits” in energy and water, the State competitiveness watchdog has said in an annual assessment.
And finally, in Innovation, Neil Briscoe writes that if we are to successfully battle climate change, we need to do two things pretty quickly. We need to convert our home heating from gas and oil to electricity. And we need to do the same with our cars. To date, these challenges have been targeted separately. Now anhas started to work on both, coming up with technologies that should simplify the dual process of electrifying our houses and our cars.daily email news digest.
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