Energy Efficiency

In late February, the federal government press release was that they had made changes to the renewable energy target scheme, saying that, by doing so, it will enable it to exceed a 20 % target by 2020.
Market demand for the scheme from new large-scale projects, such as wind farms and solar energy plants, has [...]

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Its no accident that there is a world-wide energy shortage; its because its too cheap; by this I mean it doesn’t reflect the environmental impacts of over-use.
With climate change being seen everywhere around the world, resulting in changing weather patterns, many countries are re-evaluating existing generation and looking for ways to reduce infrastructure costs, be [...]

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Many years ago, the CSIRO developed the world’s first computer (we only recently – after extensive litigation with the kings of theft (the USA) – started receiving royalties) but this idea was squashed by politicans.
Fast forward to the 1960’s and Australia boasted the oldest branch of the International Solar Energy Society.
Today, despite an abundance of [...]

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The Courier Mail recently ran a politcial press release as a story, with the usual mix of spin of gain to off-set some already released or to be released counter-productive story.
In this case it was the Clive Palmer coal mine touted to create thousands of jobs by the chief spruiker – who is not taken [...]

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