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Hydrogen, the clean green energy fuel

Riffkin argued that much as oil had transformed the 20th century, so hydrogen could be just as revolutionary in the 21st.

by Keith Suter - 16/10/2019 - 15 comments

Losing control of affordable reliable power

Grid managers warn power transmission and distribution infrastructure increasingly can't cope. Anybody watching PocketNEM knows how frantically they are paddling.

by Geoff Carmody - 15/10/2019 - 11 comments

Salty water anytime, but we won’t drink sewage!

The solution has been with us for millennia and the technology to deliver it has been used and applied for nearly 50 years around the world.

by Charles Essery - 14/10/2019 - 12 comments

Vulnerability in a greying Australia: the aged in a changing climate

Australia’s geographical location and size add a further dimension ensuring that the country experiences a widely variable climate.

by Peter Curson - 10/10/2019 - 12 comments

Cleaner air from improved fuel quality standards

Australia's petrol quality is the worst in the OECD. While other countries are improving their fuel quality, the Australian Government recently reviewed the standards and is not making any meaningful changes.

by David Swanton - 8/10/2019 - 5 comments

Understanding the Greta Effect

The Greta Thunberg effect is, like most large-scale movements, partly a result of the right person and the right cause converging at the right time.

by Mal Fletcher - 2/10/2019 - 14 comments

Climate change is a worldwide catastrophe in the making

These confined animal feeding operations release massive amounts of greenhouse gasses, surpassing even the entire global transportation industry.

by Alon Ben-Meir - 2/10/2019 - 54 comments

‘Environmentalism’ versus environmental management

As activists, environmentalists rarely offered solutions. Rather, they promoted paralysing and non-democratic concepts.

by Pedro Toranzo - 27/09/2019 - 16 comments

Climate cultism on the march

Preliminary warmup rally calls of 'Or should we become climate rebels?' from 'gurus', such as Tim Flannery this week, do not bode well.

by Charles Essery - 20/09/2019 - 76 comments

Economy and ecology: two words, same origin

Ecosystems provide services to human civilization: they need to be paid for.

by Pedro Toranzo - 18/09/2019 - 5 comments

Recycling to save the planet: another great environmental hoax

Spurred on by green activists, governments have progressively expanded recycling to the point that it has now become a costly end-in-itself.

by Brendan O'Reilly - 12/09/2019 - 9 comments

Federal inquiry gives glimpses of public opinion on nuclear power

Even on the pro-nuclear side, there are some reservations, and not all are sceptical of renewable energy.

by Noel Wauchope - 11/09/2019 - 14 comments

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