Scottish green hydrogen scheme gears up to fuel ferries, buses and trains
Wind and solar farms will produce the gas alongside Scottish Power, ITM Power and BOCScottish Power’s wind and solar farms will soon help produce green hydrogen to run buses, ferries and even trains as...
View ArticleAdvice to government contradicts Coalition claim over Liddell coal plant closure
Taskforce study does not back Scott Morrison’s claim that Liddell coal plant needs urgent replacing with 1,000 megawatts of new dispatchable electricity generation capacity A Morrison government claim...
View ArticleHitachi to pull plug on north Wales nuclear power station
Scrapping of £16bn project on Anglesey down to lack of UK government investment in new nuclear, says unionThe Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has conformed it is abandoning plans to build a new nuclear...
View ArticleCoalition to divert renewable energy funding away from wind and solar
Scott Morrison says solar and wind are commercially viable and do not need subsidies from the $1.43bn fundingThe Morrison government will continue to fund Australia’s renewable energy agency to the...
View ArticleMorrison trying to 'emasculate' Arena by shifting focus to carbon capture,...
Greens join Labor criticism of overhaul saying it is ‘like taking money from the health budget and giving it to a tobacco company’The Labor leader Anthony Albanese has declared the Morrison government...
View ArticleToyota reveals plan to turn trucks into emissions-free 'power plants'
Carmaker is to begin testing proposal to fit its Dyna vehicles with hydrogen fuel cellsPortable emissions-free “power plants” could soon hit the road under plans by Toyota to fit some of the company’s...
View ArticleMorrison says you're either for gas or against it. Of course it's not as...
Shifting from coal to gas would reduce emissions, but shifting from coal to renewables would reduce them much fasterWe are not going to linger excessively with politics, for reasons I’ll make clear in...
View ArticleGreener BP must do more than talk tough on the climate crisis
A company steeped in oil and gas production may not find it easy to convince investors of its environmental credentials‘This is serious stuff,” said BP’s Bernard Looney. The chief executive, speaking...
View ArticleFrom simple actions to self-reliance: Josh Byrne's sustainable home upgrades...
Retrofitting your house or apartment to use less energy doesn’t have to be an expensive exercise Improving the sustainability performance of your home can bring big benefits. Firstly, an...
View ArticleLabor rift as Joel Fitzgibbon defies party on medium-term target for cutting...
Hunter Valley MP contradicts Labor leader Anthony Albanese and climate spokesman Mark ButlerLabor’s resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon has declared Labor does not need to set a medium-term target for...
View ArticleMorrison’s tech roadmap flags more investment in carbon capture and storage
Net zero emissions by 2050 still not on the table but ‘clean’ hydrogen, ‘low carbon’ steel and CCS part of decade-long funding, Angus Taylor says The Morrison government will identify “clean” hydrogen,...
View ArticleThe Coalition's tech roadmap is a strategy based on an old and discredited...
There are useful elements in recent policy announcements but what we really need is a clear financial incentive to deliver emission reductionsStationed here in Victoria under Covid lockdown and working...
View Article'Tiny wind turbine' can collect energy from a walker's swinging arm
Researchers say device can generate sustainable power from gentle breeze Scientists have developed a “tiny wind turbine” that can scavenge energy from the breeze made while walking.Imagine rubbing a...
View ArticleScientists develop 'tiny wind turbine' to scavenge energy from gentle breeze...
Scientists have developed a 'tiny wind turbine' that can take energy from a gentle breeze, such as that made as you walk.The device comprises two plastic strips in a tube that flutter or clap together...
View ArticleUgandan government rejects plan for Murchison Falls hydropower dam
Activists praise decision to reject energy ministry’s proposal to dam the world-famous waterfallConservationists in Uganda have hailed a bipartisan decision to reject the government’s plan to construct...
View ArticleAre electric cars on a road to nowhere? | Letters
Readers respond to George Monbiot’s warning that electric vehicles are not the solution to the UK’s pollution and transport problemsGeorge Monbiot’s article (Electric cars won’t solve our pollution...
View ArticleWhat are the key technologies in the Coalition's low emissions roadmap, and...
From clean hydrogen, energy storage and low-carbon materials to carbon capture and storage, and soil carbonThe Coalition government this week released its much-anticipated Low Emissions Technology...
View ArticleQ+A: Australia’s fossil fuel industry will collapse within 20 years, Mike...
Atlassian billionaire tells Q+A panel China’s move to become carbon neutral by 2060 spells doom for Australia’s coal and gas productionAustralia’s fossil fuel industry will collapse within 20 years as...
View ArticleMany fossil fuel workers like me want to transition to renewables – but we...
Covid has hit the industry hard, but the shift to renewables is inevitable. We need government-funded retrainingOil and gas is one of the main industries in Aberdeen where I grew up, and it was...
View Article‘Green hydrogen’ from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’...
Government has nominated ‘clean hydrogen’ using gas and CCS but for many countries ‘clean’ already means without fossil fuels“Green hydrogen” made with wind and solar electricity could become the...
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