Energy Efficiency

Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade The Honourable Stephen Robertson spins the commissioning of new substations to reinforce power supply to Gladstone area as a good thing. He claims ‘electricity demand in the Gladstone area is being driven by strong long-term growth in the industrial, coal mining and minerals processing [...]

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Previously Minister for Health (and greatly aiding Qld Health by leaving) and now Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade, Stephen Robertson, has come up with more nonsense by claiming that Queensland’s new swimming pool owners could save on their electricity costs by limiting pool pump use to off peak. His [...]

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So what’s upsetting the apple cart in Peter Garret’s – no nuclear power (except when I vote for it cause I have to toe the – Rio Tinto – party line) and kRudd’s Kyoto protocol going down like a kamikaze pilot and the token Penny Wong setting back the Asian cause by 50 years (now [...]

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Google and General Electric (two of the most advanced 21st century companies), have joined forces that should revolutionize North America and elsewhere with state-of-the-art “smart” electricity grids. The only thing limiting their success may well be the need for this high concentration in alternative energy … Peak Oil … where the world’s oil supplies are [...]

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In Nigeria chronic electricity shortages are largely to blame for the loss of three million jobs and the closure of hundreds of factories in northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, local business leaders say. “In the last 15 years, more than three million jobs have been directly and indirectly lost in Kano with the closure of more [...]

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