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How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims
Most of us lack the expertise to evaluate climate science, but there are ways anyone can spot a badly reasoned argument.
Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, Director of the UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Redflow to install Thai-made battery stacks on ZBM2 tank sets in Brisbane to supply existing customer orders
Redflow has today received in Australia the first battery electrode stacks made by its new Thailand facility.
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Energy efficiency market report: A “spectacular” start to 2018
Having brought 2017 to a close on a comparatively stable note, the VEEC market began 2018 in a far more spectacular fashion. ESC market has also started in a positive frame of mind.
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Tasmania Libs propose solar + battery microgrid ahead of election
Tasmania's Liberal government promises to boost state energy security with $200k solar and battery storage "microgrid," if re-elected.
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Cape Town is almost out of water. Could Australian cities suffer same fate?
With water storages running low, residents of Cape Town get drinking water in the early morning from a mountain spring collection point.
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AGL pays $60,000 penalty for failing to inform customers of contract end
AGL have paid penalties totalling $60,000 in response to infringement notices issued by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).
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Elon Musk sends Tesla Roadster into orbit, and changes space travel
ICYMI, there's a red Tesla Roadster flying through space, on a billion-year elliptic Mars orbit. Why? Well that's just how Elon Musk rolls.
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Windlab’s new 100MW wind farm approved for Queensland’s north
Windlab's 100MW, $200m Lakeland Wind Farm set to be built south of Cooktown in Queensland, after winning state government approval.
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South Australia unveils another big battery, this time with solar
Tilt Renewables to build another SA big battery, next to new solar farm and existing Snowtown windfarm, and a 300MW/1350MWh pumped hydro project near Adelaide.
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What Cape Town can learn from Australia’s millennium drought
As Day Zero looms and the South African city gets set to run out of water, experts say lessons learned during Melbourne’s brush with a similar fate may help avert a global crisis
In December 2017, Seona Candy drove through the vineyards of the Franschhoek Valley near Cape Town towards the banks of the Sonderend river. In the late 1970s, the waterway was dammed to create the biggest reservoir in South Africa’s Western Cape. Behind the thick walls of the Theewaterskloof dam lay the capacity to hold 480 million cubic metres of water, nearly half of Cape Town’s water supply.
“When I got there, it was mostly dust,” Candy says.
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Hedgehog numbers 'down by half', warn wildlife groups
Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the UK, particularly in rural areas, according to a new report.
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UK 'could adopt Norway recycling system'
A Scandinavian system for recycling bottles is thought likely to be adopted in the UK.
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LONGi Solar to Set up 1GW Mono Cell and 1GW Mono Module Manufacturing Facility in India
Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest $309 million, including about $240 million in construction investment and roughly $68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1GW respectively.
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The story of Elon Musk rocket launch
The rocket's payload is Elon Musk's own Tesla, and two of the three rocket segments have landed.
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Greensmith Energy’s Texas Waves Energy Storage project now operational, responds quickly to January cold spell, increasing grid reliability in ERCOT
Greensmith Energy, a part of the technology group Wärtsilä, has successfully completed two grid-scale energy storage systems in partnership with E.ON Climate & Renewables in Texas.
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Australia not prepared for water crisis, says Committee for Sydney
South African City of Cape Town could run out of drinking water in a matter of months, and that's sparked the question if Australia is prepared for similar crisis.
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Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully
The world's most powerful rocket successfully lifts clear of its pad on historic maiden flight.
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Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off
Wild cheering greets the launch of the maiden flight of the new rocket.
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The oddities sent into space
A car, a golf ball, a pie... and other items items dispatched on cosmic journeys over the years.
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Curious Kids: why does rain only come from grey clouds?
To answer this question from Fiona, age 6, we need to know some things about clouds and light.
Justin Peter, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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