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  • Cheap and dirty grid may be our biggest liability

    Cheap and dirty grid may be our biggest liability

    For decades Australia has boasted of its cheap and reliable electricity grid as the most potent sign of its economic competitiveness. But two new studies highlight the folly of resting on past laurels, and highlight how Australia’s cheap and dirty grid has left its economy exposed and poorly prepared for the inevitable change to a low-carbon economy.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 19, 2012
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  • Japan’s emergency option: A power station on wheels

    Japan’s emergency option: A power station on wheels

    Mitsubishi responds to Japan’s impending power crisis by proposing a mobile emergency power source.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 19, 2012
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  • Mixed Greens: Stalemate for nuclear finance

    Mixed Greens: Stalemate for nuclear finance

    Doubts over Czech co’s ability to finance Europe’s only nuclear tender; Silex gets berth in global climate index; fierce bidding for South Africa renewable tender.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 19, 2012
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  • The Earth is still warming, enough to boil Sydney Harbour dry…

    The Earth is still warming, enough to boil Sydney Harbour dry…

    …every 12 hours! These and other equations help convey the systemic nature of global warming in terms we can all grasp.
    Glenn Tamblyn
    Mar 19, 2012
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  • The Hunger Games: Apocalypse Now for young adults

    The Hunger Games: Apocalypse Now for young adults

    Portraying a future where the fight to feed ourselves is televised, this film makes one of the world’s greatest challenges literal and hyper-violent.
    Joe Romm
    Mar 19, 2012
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  • Mixed Greens: 5 Vic wind farms make the cut

    Solar thermal boost in India, the top 10 PV makers, and the OECD’s bleak warning.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 16, 2012
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  • TRUenergy ready to invest in renewables again

    TRUenergy ready to invest in renewables again

    TRUenergy to move soon to meet its 2500MW renewable obligations. Plus, the outlook for RECs, baseload power, the CEFC and emerging energy technologies. And how regulatory changes have cruelled its investment in Cathedral Rocks wind farm.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 16, 2012
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  • Why TRU quit geothermal – too risky, too costly

    Why TRU quit geothermal – too risky, too costly

    TRUenergy justifies its decision to back out of one of the most advanced geothermal projects in Australia.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 16, 2012
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  • Hot news in cleantech: Offshore biomass and solar wallpaper

    Hot news in cleantech: Offshore biomass and solar wallpaper

    Seaweed biomass grown in offshore wind farms; wind-water turbines; and an innovation that could make solar power cheap, easy and ubiquitous.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 16, 2012
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  • TRUenergy bullish on flagships, and solar in general

    TRUenergy bullish on flagships, and solar in general

    The utility says it can win the revised tender for Solar Flagships – or find another way to push open the door.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 15, 2012
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  • NSW stares at energy future and fades to black

    NSW stares at energy future and fades to black

    The pricing recommended in the final IPART report on solar tariffs in NSW is less important than its failure to imagine the future. The NSW energy industry remains rooted in the past. Chalk up another big win for the incumbents.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 15, 2012
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  • Mixed Greens: EV battery prices set to plummet

    Mixed Greens: EV battery prices set to plummet

    Report predicts 700% growth by 2017 for Li-ion battery market; US Navy to install EV charging stations; Climate Institute calls for regional ETS focus.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 15, 2012
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