Australia has finally started to wake up to climate change. It is real and we must do something about it. It has become a headline issue in the upcoming federal election (May 21st), especially now that GetUp! is touring the country with a bust of Prime Minister Scott Morrison made … [continued]
There is a lot of talk about green hydrogen, but to be really green, the feedstock needs to be water (not so called “natural gas,” aka fossil methane) and the energy used for electrolysis needs to come from renewable energy (not coal or gas). In high school, we did an … [continued]
The global move towards LNG as a replacement for coal has led to record high prices and a stumble in world economic growth. Has the cleantech future already hit the gas industry as countries and companies are reluctant to invest in new supply in light of climate change fears? It … [continued]
Metaphors of outrage escape me. They aren’t just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic — they are firing RPGs into the deck. Not just fiddling while their electorates burn (as they did in 2020), but throwing fossil fuels on the blaze! These are the people who will have to live … [continued]
The story here is not that planning for the largest storage battery in the world is going forward in the New South Wales, Australia. The story is that this is happening despite fierce opposition to renewable energy by the Australian government. In effect, the individual states and several energy producers … [continued]
80 laureates of the Australian Research Council have published an open letter pleading with the government to take aggressive measures to reduce the country’s carbon emissions.
Australia is burning, but many people believe it is the fault of arsonists, not climate change. Others think ISIS is responsible. Few want to acknowledge the truth.
The Australian Prime Minister is in hot water for deciding to take a family vacation in Hawai’i while volunteer firefighters were dying while attempting to control massive brush fires sweeping across the east coast of the country.
Neoen, the owner/operator of the Hornsdale battery in South Australia will expand its size by 50% by the middle of next year, further stabilizing the grid and saving utility customers money.
For a brief 10 minute period last week, 5 Australian states were powered by more than 50% renewable energy. Despite the idiocy of the national government, renewables are becoming a bigger and bigger part of Australia’s energy future.
