Got an email from a friend of mine in the legal sector. It contains an examination of the Rudd govts environmental plans. Makes for interesting reading:
http://www.freehills.com/publications/publications_7084.asp
Renewable energy
Labor can also be expected to implement its announced policies on renewable energy: Labor’s 20 Per Cent Target For a Renewable Energy Future. Labor has promised to ensure that [...]
George Monbiot is so alarmed by recent scientific findings that he has released an update to his book Heat.
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The last time we had two degrees of warming in the Pliocene 55 millionyears ago, the ice sheets at the poles did not melt – as the IPCC proposes -over a millennia, but within the course [...]
Has anyone any further information on this solar farm ……
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/16/2093119.htm
I found this masters project from a UK university quite interesting. They have developed a framework for estimating the wind farm potential of a site using existing data in the public domain.
Wind Resource Prediction Project homepage
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Cost has always been one of solar’s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity (exacerbated currently by a global silicon shortage). What’s more, says Peter Harrop, chairman of electronics consulting firm IDTechEx, “it has to be put on glass, so it’s heavy, dangerous, expensive to ship and expensive [...]
Rear Vision looks at the history of solar technology in Australia. Why is Australia now lagging behind other nations like China and Germany? Features discussion from Robin Batterham and a number of Australian solar experts.
RN Rear Vision – 11November2007 – Solar energy in Australia
According to this article Ausra will be building a 177MW solar thermal power plant in central California on 1 square mile of land (640 hectares). Based on this ratio Victoria’s power needs of 6000MW could be generated in 50km2.
Sounds too good to be true, but I’ve heard the 50km2 figure thrown about before. Like to know what others have [...]
Below is a link to Thursday’s Guardian of an article warning that Indonesia’s rush to cultivate palm oil as a fuel substitute could release billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in one go. This is because deep peat bogs that contain massive amounts of carbon would need to be cleared to make way [...]
Just in case there was any doubt it is pretty clear that climate change is now a mainstream political issue. In todays debate between Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Garret, both environmental spokesmen stated that climate change is the biggest threat to our environment and the economy.
The entire debate can be viewed on the ABC website:
Climate [...]
More from the Catalyst archives. This reports looks at the CH2 building in Melbourne which has been designed to be highly energy efficient using a range of innovative ideas for temperature control. Ties in well with the ideas that were presented by Geoff Andrews.
Catalyst: Council House Two – the eco-office block of the future [...]
Australian Renewable Energy News