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[Link] Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project fails to meet target
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major gas processing plant.
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[Link] Twiggy Stardust: the man who sold, er saved, the world
Read: 14/11/2021 www.afr.com
David Bowie concealed one last alter-ego: an iron ore magnate and global warming messiah simply known as Andrew.
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[Link] Solar Cells, Half Off
Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com
A company named Leap Photovoltaic claims they have a technology to create solar panels without silicon wafers which would cut production costs in half.
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[Link] Australia puts fossil fuel company front and centre at Cop26
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been criticised for prominently hosting a fossil fuel company at its pavilion at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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[Link] NSW premier orders grants review as it’s revealed $20m school solar program went mostly to Coalition seats
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet ordered a review of grants funding in the state at the same time it was revealed more than 90% of schools selected as part of a $20m pilot to fund solar power systems were in Coalition-held seats.
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[Link] Extinction Rebellion protesters glued to road in Adelaide's CBD call for climate change action
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued their hands and feet to the road in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, demanding immediate political action on climate change. Traffic is being disrupted by the gathering, some of whom have chained themselves to one another and to prams.
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[Link] The U.S. Wants to Turn Both Coasts Into Massive OffshorWindfarms
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration is planning a rapid buildout of offshore wind turbines along the U.S. coastline.
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[Link] Tesla’s Megapack Battery Burned For Days In Grid Storage Fire
Read: 15/8/2021 hackaday.com
Lithium rechargeable batteries have been heralded for their high-density energy storage, enabling all manner of technologies to come to fruition. From drones to practical electric cars to large-scale grid storage, the applications are endless.
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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.
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[Link] South Australia Vs. Too Much Home Solar
Read: 12/5/2021 hackaday.com
Once upon a time, the consensus was that renewable energy was too expensive and in too sparse supply to be a viable power source to run our proud, electrified societies on.