Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How Europe’s biggest coal company came to grief – by ignoring change
The crisis gripping Europe’s biggest coal mining company has been brewing for a long time.
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VW’s emissions fraud was breathtakingly cynical. But it’s not the first
The implications of VW’s emissions fraud worsen by the day. But, it’s not the first. Two big US auto makers hid major defects because they decided it was cheaper to pay compensation to the dead and injured than fix the problem. No wonder big brand names are in danger of losing consumers as new technology…
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Coalition to accelerate battery storage in Australian households
Australian government says it wants to accelerate deployment of battery storage in households, to help reduce peak demand and deliver savings on network costs.
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How rooftop solar is changing Australia’s electricity demand patterns
Generation from rooftop solar is growing quickly and makes a material difference to the apparent trend in electricity demand.
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Turnbull says emission trading schemes are “valid”, but he’s not for turning yet
Turnbull says emissions trading schemes are a “valid mechanism”, but Coalition will continue with Direct Action, at least until review in 2017.
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Whisper it: Quiet wind power with a revolutionary design
A novel design gets around negative perceptions of wind turbines, and delivers more efficiency.
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ARENA to provide $449,000 for Dyesol’s perovskite cell research
Dyesol gets grant to progress development of perovskite solar cells, touted as a highly efficient and potentially cheaper solar cell.
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There is one thing the Coalition can do for climate change that Labor cannot
Strangely, the one government that can move to depoliticise climate is the Coalition.
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Aggregated energy storage has arrived
US trials suggest economics of battery storage will likely be best when looking at customer-sited batteries that can provide both customer and grid-facing services.
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ABB says microgrids with 50 per cent solar do not need storage
ABB has raised the upper limit for microgrid renewable-energy penetration without storage.
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Australia’s weaker emissions standards allow car makers to ‘dump’ polluting cars
Australia’s lower standards for car exhaust mean overseas car-makers can sell more-polluting cars.
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US utility-scale solar averaging five cents/kWh, study finds
The average contract for large-scale solar energy in US is being negotiated for just $0.05/kWh, according to Berkeley Lab study.
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