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Gas industry cooking the carbon books with its clean and green kitchen claims
The gas industry marketing people chose an unfortunate example to promote its wares – cooking food.
Alan Pears

Jul 23, 2020

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Digitalisation lessons from industrial compressed air
Compressed air systems, often called ‘the fourth utility’ after electricity, gas and water and used in drying, assembly, blow moulding and paint spraying, are often shockingly inefficient.
Alan Pears

Jul 17, 2020

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Policy & Planning

Our energy market was never fit for purpose, because it was obsessed only with price
Our electricity market was never fit for purpose, and the barriers to fundamental change are challenging and deeply ingrained in energy culture.
Alan Pears

Jul 17, 2020

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Policy & Planning

Get ready for a virus-driven change in energy use
What happens beyond the immediate crisis will depend on how governments, business and households react. Here are some possibilities.
Alan Pears

Jul 13, 2020

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How to win the fossil fuel word game
There is no longer time to take incremental action on climate change. What are the key actions policy makers must take in the next decade, and what’s needed to win the ‘fossil fuel word game’?
Alan Pears

Mar 25, 2020

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How energy and emission projections and scenarios distort climate debate
Scenarios and modelling is distorting the debate we need to have about energy and climate, and hiding what can be acheived.
Alan Pears

Feb 20, 2020

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Policy & Planning

We’re not just shifting to a low carbon energy future
Powerful trends associated with low carbon economy are reframing work, business, politics and daily life.
Alan Pears

Dec 18, 2019

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Has Australia ‘over-invested’ in renewable energy?
Spoiler alert: No. And energy minister Angus Taylor clearly hasn’t been paying attention to the history of our electricity infrastructure.
Alan Pears

Oct 10, 2019

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Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles and stationary energy – emerging possibilities
Emerging EV technology can provide both mobility and home energy for several days, and could even be used to ‘export’ electricity to other buildings or the grid.
Alan Pears

Oct 7, 2019

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Electric Vehicles

Future of electric cars: One common chassis, many range extenders
A simple chassis that allows different bodies to be ‘plugged’ in will capture economies of scale, while range extenders provide a ‘security blanket’ to overcome range anxiety.
Alan Pears

Sep 10, 2019

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Other Good Stuff

Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets
If the government has any data or modelling to serve as a basis for Morrison’s confidence about meeting the Paris climate targets, it should tell us.
Alan Pears

Feb 1, 2019

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Coal

The Pears Report: Why I would not sell Liddell
We should be repurposing old industrial or electricity generation sites for more sustainable activities.
Alan Pears

Jul 9, 2018

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