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Dispatchable wind and solar: They’ll be the death of coal and gas
It’s been a year since the last South Australia blackout and when the Coalition brandished a lump of coal in parliament. And the progress since then has been remarkable – on the cost front, on storage, and the emergence of dispatchable renewables.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 9, 2018

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Commentary

Warming past 1.5°C: Quantifying our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels
The climate system will heat well past 1.5 °C and perhaps up to 2°C without any further fossil fuel emissions, new research finds.
David Spratt

Feb 1, 2018

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Policy & Planning

The climate solution no-one in Davos will be talking about
At Davos, the world’s economic elite will make much of climate crisis and their desire to green global capitalism; but will ignore one of the most powerful tools.
Ian Lefond and Timmons Robers

Jan 23, 2018

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Other Good Stuff

How tech nerds can reinvent electricity before it’s too late
There’s a growing mob that thinks it can reinvent electricity, from old to new, and from a supply-dominated industry-based model to consumers-in-control.
Murray Hogarth

Nov 23, 2017

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Coal

Coal industry’s final insult to humanity: It’s killing our sperm
Taiwanese study finds that men exposed to higher levels of air pollution have poorer quality sperm. Add that to climate impacts and lung disease of fossil fuels.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 22, 2017

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Renewables

Graphs of the Day: Wind fast, solar faster, batteries fastest
Four charts show that in the global race to build new energy capacity, wind is fast, solar is faster, and batteries will be faster again. Meanwhile, coal power…
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 24, 2017

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Coal

Why renewables will be cheaper than coal: Here are the numbers
The price of new-build renewable energy is expected to fall significantly relative to new-build coal energy in coming years.
Ken Baldwin

Sep 27, 2017

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Renewables

Wind and solar produce three times more energy than IEA admits
The IEA energy statistics underestimates the role of wind and solar in the world’s energy mix – by a factor of three. Here’s why.
Erik Sauar

Aug 29, 2017

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Coal

6.5% of global GDP spent subsidising fossil fuels, or $12m every minute
IMF says subsidies to global fossil fuel industry reached $A6.7 trillion in 2015 – or $A18 billion a day, or $A12 million a minute.
Ian Clover

Aug 10, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Koch front group is putting out misleading attack ads on electric vehicles
Petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch, who have underwritten attacks on climate science, have launched a series of videos attacking electric vehicles.
Samantha Page

Aug 1, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

South Miami just made a huge rooftop solar decision
South Miami this week became the first city outside of California to require all new homes to install solar panels on their roofs.
Bobby Magill

Jul 21, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Energy Locals calls out ‘gen-tailers’ for driving up prices, hurting customers
Energy Locals becomes second market player in week to hit out at fossil fuel generators for “deliberately” driving up electricity bills.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 6, 2017

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