Jennifer Marohasy

WE may not be getting an emissions trading scheme any time soon but the climate and energy crises still need fixing with real urgency…  Barry Brooks and Martin Nicholson answer the objections to nuclear here.

CLEAN coal increasingly appears to be neither scientifically feasible nor economically viable. The only real alternative for Australia is nuclear yet those most concerned about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) oppose it.
Clean coal is the process of trapping carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal to prevent those emissions from entering the atmosphere. Local expert John [...]

CAR manufacturer Renault has announced a commitment to the production of at least 100,000 electric cars by 2016. 
The announcement was made at the Frankfurt Motor Show with the cars to be built for drivers in Israel and Denmark.  
The success of electric vehicles will depend on the development of a network of charging points and swapping stations.  [...]

“RESEARCHERS at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have been able to prove that the fossils of animals and plants are not necessary to generate raw oil and natural gas. This result is extremely radical as it means that it will be much easier to find these energy sources and that they may [...]

“For solar shoppers these days, the price is right. Panel prices have fallen about 40 percent since the middle of last year.”  Read more from The New York Times here.

THE company promoting the mass adoption of electric cars, Better Place, has just received an award from the Japanese government to conduct a pilot project in Tokyo for the world’s first electric taxis with switchable batteries.   
Not so long ago the company got some money to make Canberra Australia’s first city with an electric vehicle infrastructure. 
 
The Tokyo electric taxi pilot will involve [...]

THE Australian government didn’t get its carbon trading legislation through the Senate last week and has now decided, at least for the moment, to just push ahead with that part of the legislation relating to renewable energy targets.   
It seems this legislation is likely to be passed sometime this week and according to many pundits the big [...]

CANBERRA, Australia 24 July 2009: Better Place Australia, the leading electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and services provider today announced that it has chosen the nation’s capital, Canberra, as the site of its first city-wide roll-out of electric vehicle infrastructure in Australia. 

“The future of nuclear energy could lie in plants that can be factory built, shipped to a site, and operated 30 years without refuelling…
“It has become commonplace to say that we are at the beginning of a global revitalization of the nuclear energy enterprise. The scope and timing of this “nuclear renaissance,” however, remain somewhat [...]