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 … [Read more...] about Electric Taxis for Tokyo
Energy & Nuclear
A Windy Future
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 … [Read more...] about A Windy Future
Roll-out of Electric Car Rechargers to Begin in 2011
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 … [Read more...] about Roll-out of Electric Car Rechargers to Begin in 2011
Safe Portable Nuclear – Almost
“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 … [Read more...] about Safe Portable Nuclear – Almost
The World in 2050: Nuclear Powered
WORLD leaders are meeting in Italy and high on the agenda is climate change, in particular the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Today’s declaration to reduce emissions by 50 percent globally by 2050 is aspiration. I say this because if it … [Read more...] about The World in 2050: Nuclear Powered
No Solar: A Note from Viv Forbes
AUSTRALIAN electricity consumers can look forward to soaring charges for electricity and blackouts if state and federal politicians continue to undermine the power grid by mandating and subsidising solar power generation. Solar power can never … [Read more...] about No Solar: A Note from Viv Forbes
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
