Challenge to harness energy potential

WHEN the late US President John F Kennedy first spoke, in 1961, about his plan to put a man on the moon within a decade, he did not know how it was going to be done.

The technology to make his dream a reality did not exist at the time and many people thought it could never happen.

But the vision and the challenge were set. Committed people started working towards that daunting ambition and achieved it. The same can be done to make Ireland energy-independent, according to John Travers, an Irish and international energy expert and a chartered engineer who has worked at Shell International.