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Monthly Archives October 2008

Sydney company looks to catch solar wind to China

Christian posted something about this a while ago. Interesting technology, especially considering the huge amount of emissions coming from sea transport.
Sydney company looks to catch solar wind to China – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Posted 30 October 2008 † iain § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , ,

Tax Credits Extended and Increase for Residential Solar

Federal tax credits have been extended beyond 2009. In addition to the extended term, the residential tax credit is no longer capped at $2000. It is 30% of the net cost of the system (total cost minus grants and rebates) and may be taken over several years. 

Posted 19 October 2008 † dcsolar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged:

Carbon Emission Trading: A way forward or the Emperor’s new clothes?

A great overview of Europe’s efforts to introduce a carbon trading scheme.
RN Rear Vision – 28 September 2008 – Carbon Emission Trading: A way forward or the Emperor’s new clothes?.
Also see Dateline special about Carbon trading
http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/the_cost_of_carbon__559309

Posted 08 October 2008 † iain § Carbon / Emissions Trading ‡ Comments Off °

Another way of burning coal

Apparently there has been an idea around for a while to use coal in diesel engines. The idea is to pulverise coal into fine particles and mix it with water to form a slurry and inject this into the compression chamber of a diesel engine where it would explode with the compressed air just like [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † JeremyC § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: