The Staggering Costs of Achieving Net-Zero Emissions in Australia

In order to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, Australia will need to make some major changes. And, according to a new report from the Australian National University, those changes are going to come at a staggering cost. The report estimates that the price tag for achieving net-zero emissions in Australia by 2050 will be $5 […]
Green Energy in 1978

Watch Jack Nicholson speak about green energy back in 1978 American actor Jack Nicholson is accepted as one of the most celebrated actors ever to grace the silver screen, finding fame playing Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Though he has now retired from acting, he remains recognised as […]
Hydrogen breaks investment records

Hydrogen breaks investment records. According to new research released by the Hydrogen Council, there is more urgency than ever to increase investment in large-scale hydrogen energy projects. The report, Hydrogen Insights 2022, was created in partnership with the renowned consulting firm McKinsey & Company. It notes that 680 large-scale hydrogen project proposals have been announced, […]
Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cell Muscle Car

Climbing Behind the Wheel of a Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cell Muscle Car Hyundai’s N Vision 74 turns out 690 hp of asphalt-burning rear-drive fun—and makes a great argument for the technology’s place in an electric future. The battery electric era is already arriving, but a big question remains over what will follow it. A significant percentage […]
David Attenborough Backs Clean Energy

David Attenborough backs clean energy. David Attenborough backs huge Apollo-style clean energy research plan. Naturalist says 10-year public research and development programme, that would emulate race to put men on the moon, could halt climate change. An Apollo-style research programme to make renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuels has won the backing of Sir David […]
World Energy Investment 2022 – Analysis – IEA

World Energy Investment 2022 – High prices, rising costs, economic uncertainty, energy security concerns and climate imperatives amount to a powerful cocktail of factors bearing on global energy investment. Investment is central to tackling the multiple strands of today’s energy crisis: to relieve pressure on consumers, to get the world on a net zero pathway, […]
Fast transition to renewables

Fast transition to renewables will save the world $18 trillion, says Oxford study. A new study has found it is not only possible to fully decarbonise the global energy system within a few decades, it will be profitable and save the the world at least $US12 trillion ($A18 trillion) if it reached the target by […]
1.5 degrees is unthinkable without biomass

The global goal of reaching 1.5 degrees is unthinkable without biomass according to leading environmental scientist Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Speaking at the World Bioenergy Association’s media partnership event with Euractiv, Professor Michael Obersteiner of the University of Oxford, a modeller for the IPCC reports on […]
Biomass for bioenergy

Biomass for bioenergy – Demonstration of potential for bioenergy to contribute to energy system transformation in NSW This project is investigating opportunities for increasing the amount of sustainable biomass use in NSW with a focus on electricity generation. The purpose of the project is to identify available and potential feedstocks for bioenergy generation at varying […]
2022 – The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

2022 Hydrogen Economy Launched – The Inflation Reduction Act and the war in Ukraine pump billions into clean hydrogen R&D Among the technological visions that seem perpetually futuristic (think commercial nuclear fusion and maglev trains), the hydrogen economy has always been tantalizing. Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped […]