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Japanese lab study confirms DAC process in concrete
SwitchedOn Podcast: How a health check for your home can help upgrade its energy efficiency
Home energy efficiency assessor, Lucinda Flynn, explains why your reverse cycle air conditioner feels blowy, how to increase the energy rating on your home, and tips for retrofitting on a budget.
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Broken Hill battery makes first appearance in “most challenging” part of grid
Broken Hill battery, testing grid forming inverters at the edge of Australia's sprawling grid, is about to begin its commissioning process.
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Major Japanese bank to invest in Singapore-based carbon exchange
Synergy awards construction contract for biggest battery on WA grid
Synergy announces contractor to install and connect the 288 battery modules that will make up what will be - at least for a time - the biggest battery on the main W.A. grid.
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Grok changes cap as it seeks “lighthouse” investments on climate and clean energy
Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures changes cap with a new logo (of a cap), and new focus on climate technologies and "lighthouse" investments that can make a difference.
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Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds
Regions lead plan for huge new transmission link and 4.2 GW of solar and storage
"Community led:" Seven regional councils team with CopperString founder to add new north Queensland transmission link, gigawatts of solar and battery storage.
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Australia in the dark on its own fossil fuel emissions, says Superpower Institute
SuperPower Institute says Australia has little idea of the extent of its fossil fuel emissions and wants to create a state-of-the-art data network.
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Paper casts doubt on PNG’s carbon projects and govt’s ability to oversee them
The t-shirt chewing enzyme ready to tackle plastic waste
Former world leaders seek $25bn levy on oil states’ revenues to pay for climate damage
Gordon Brown leads those signing letter to Cop28 and G20 presidents calling for levy to help fill ‘loss and damage’ fund
The bumper revenues of oil-producing states should be subject to a $25bn levy to help pay for the impact of climate disasters on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, a group of former world leaders and leading economists has said.
Seventy international figures led by the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown signed a letter calling for the measure before a crucial UN climate summit, Cop28, that begins in Dubai on Thursday. The signatories include 25 former prime ministers or presidents.
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Methane emissions from coal mines may be double estimates -report
Emitters and financials shed net holdings across CCAs and RGAs, as WCAs remain short
Why we need a fossil fuel non proliferation treaty
The Australian government has mastered the contradictory dance of committing to net zero while also approving new coal, oil and gas projects. It has to stop.
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Works begin on energy precinct combining agrivoltaics, battery storage and hydrogen
Graphite Energy breaks ground on a $29 million renewable energy and storage precinct in New South Wales, designed to power sustainable agriculture.
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Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure
Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted, but precious few will reach construction stage and likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible.
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