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Drawing upon Lectures 6 and 7 (Professor Kearns) and the reading from Coakley (2012, pp. 35-52 and 74-80),
please address the following question in your own words:
In what ways did the English reforms of Ireland threaten Gaelic Irish culture and society?
Required reading, lectures and lecture notes:
Coakley, Maurice. 2018. Ireland and the World Order: A history of uneven development. (London: Pluto), pp.
35-52 and 74-80. Also available as Ebook in MU Library.
Kearns, Gerry. 2021a. ‘GY239 Lecture 6: Notes: Spatial Injustice and Colonialism in Ireland 1’. 24 February.
Available on Maynooth University: Department of Geography/ Available on GY239 Moodle page, Part 2
Lectures (PDF).
Kearns, Gerry. 2021b. ‘GY239 Lecture 6: Spatial Injustice and Colonialism in Ireland 1′. Pre-recorded guest
lecture. Maynooth University: Department of Geography Youtube page. Available:
Kearns, Gerry. 2021c. ‘GY239 Lecture 7: Notes: Spatial Injustice and Colonialism in Ireland 2’. 2 March.
Maynooth University: Department of Geography. Available on GY239 Moodle page, Part 2 Lectures (PDF).
Kearns, Gerry. 2021d. ‘GY239 Lecture 7: Spatial Injustice and Colonialism in Ireland 2’. Pre-recorded guest
lecture. Pre-recorded guest lecture. Maynooth University: Department of Geography Youtube page. Available:
Format: Spatial Justice Learning journals are intended to assess your ability to read assigned module key texts
and provide a clear summary of the main arguments and key concepts in these readings in your own words. I
do not want a series of quotations but ask you to paraphrase and summarize the readings and lectures. Be
sure to cite all ideas and information that are not your own, and quote any specific phrasings from the sources
above. Please be aware of the University and Department’s guidelines for academic integrity and plagiarism.
Learning journals should be short, polished academic pieces. Submissions should be 200-230 words
(excluding bibliography and title). Students are asked to use academic language, use in-text referencing for all
ideas and information that is not your own, quote any phrasings, and include a bibliography (see The
Reference Guide). Remember to include your name at the top of your journal, student ID, a TII SelfCheck %)
and a brief title. Please use 12-point font, double spacing.

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Solar energy is effectively infinite. The Sun’s energy is so abundant that more energy is transferred to our planet in an hour’s sunlight than the entire global electricity consumption for a year (https://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Great-Transition/). It is also one of the fastest expanding renewable energy sources. With quicker technical gains and stronger policy support, the price of solar power is dropping rapidly.

Figure. Annual photovoltaic addition history versus International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook (WEO) predictions from 2002 to 2016. The graph shows exponential growth in solar energy capacity and a continuous underestimation by WEO.

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Figure. In the Evolving Transition scenario (ET scenario), which is premised on a demand for fossil fuels that vastly exceeds the carbon budget for limiting temperature rises to 1.5-2C, solar cost continues following its learning curve. The module cost falls by around 24% with every doubling of cumulative capacity. The rate of decline slows down in the BP 2018 Outlook, as it takes longer to double the cumulative capacity later on the learning curve.

However, there are still unsolved issues in using solar power. We are currently only capable of harvesting a small part of the light spectrum. We harvest the visual light spectrum while the IR and UV sunlight comprise, respectively, 47% and 46% of the light spectrum. The problem now is that how to open up from the current 7% through more efficient solar panel materials and mechanisms.

Solar energy is intermittent, and so are wind and tidal power. We could not get 24/7 access to these kinds of renewable energy. Without a cost-effective large-scale energy storage system, renewables will never take over oil and gas in market share. Although researchers and companies have been working on developing stationary energy storage, there are no existing solutions, which is low cost, reliable, environment-friendly, well-developed with a proven track record, to this problem.

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