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Quitting gas at home and petrol in the car can slash annual energy costs by up to $4,000
Another major report details the huge cost-of-living savings Australian households can lock in by going all-electric, this time using modelling from CSIRO.
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China CO2 emissions soar in Q2 amid extreme weather events -research
Too expensive, too slow: Australia’s biggest coal generator says no to nuclear
AGL rejects Coalition call to replace its ageing coal generators with nuclear SMRs, saying they are too costly and too slow. But the anti-renewables campaign rolls on.
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Hundreds of buildings in historic town of Lahaina destroyed in Hawaii wildfires – video
Wildfires fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora have burned through the town on Lahaina in Maui. The US Coast Guard had to pull a number of people from the ocean beside the town after they dived in to escape smoke and flames. 'It's like an apocalypse,' said a local resident
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Global wind turbine industry is a mess, and scared of solar: But it will get better
Wind turbine industry lost sight of basic manufacturing principals such as keeping production simple, focusing on repeatability. Perhaps it was scared of solar.
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AGL teaches its ageing coal plants how to flex around the rooftop solar duck
AGL is teaching its ageing coal plants how to flex and dance around rooftop solar, and for all the talk about phasing out fossil fuels, its generation will be mostly coal for years to come.
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German wind industry decries “sabotage” as turbines blocked by Autobahns, told to use barges
Germany’s wind industry has accused the operator of the country’s motorways of sabotaging the roll-out of wind turbines.
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Farm waste could fuel most domestic flights by 2025
More than 600,000 flights between Sydney and Melbourne could be powered by fuel made from agricultural waste in 2025.
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Hawaii wildfires: Six deaths confirmed as blazes engulf Maui
Massive cranes on “tippy-toes:” Tricky sites might herald peak hub height for wind farms
Tricky sites, steep hills, narrow roads and massive turbines are pushing the limits to what is possible on some wind farm locations, contractors say.
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