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Energy consumer survey reveals who wants to quit gas, and who’s afraid of smart meters
Latest Energy Consumers Australia national survey offers some interesting insight on which households are thinking of quitting gas and what Australians think of smart meters.
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Solar homes pay 30% less for power than non-solar homes, even while using more
ACCC report puts economic benefits of rooftop solar up in lights. But where are those bill savings coming from? And what does the answer mean for future solar homes?
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Breakthrough allows scientists to determine the age of endangered native fish using DNA
Frydenberg talks up gas and CCS, skates over climate in Intergenerational Report
Coalition's 198 page Intergenerational Report dedicates 119 words to climate mitigation, and says almost nothing about the risks of global warming.
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Germany fast-tracks zero emissions to 2045, lifts interim targets
Germany fast tracks climate targets in response to court ruling on intergenerational justice. But left wing parties insist trajectory is still too slow.
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Redflow announces capital raise as it eyes massive US battery market
Australian battery maker announces fund-raising round to leverage increasing customer interest in its zinc bromine flow technology, including for grid-scale applications.
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Two nude sunbathers got lost in NSW park after being startled by a deer, police say – video
Two men who were sunbathing naked on a beach south of Sydney had to be rescued after being startled by a deer and running into the Royal national park, New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller tells a press conference. The two men called for help after becoming lost in bushland, and were fined $1,000 each for breaching public health orders during greater Sydney's Covid-19 lockdown
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Collector wind farm moves to full output in New South Wales
Collector wind farm gets the all-clear to run at full 227MW capacity, after passing final hold point tests.
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Climate change: Why action still ignites debate in Australia
Scott Morrison’s climate and Covid19 policy: It’s not a race
Scott Morrison's defining failure as prime minister is his inability to treat any crisis as urgent. That has caused failure for climate and Covid.
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Why Alan Finkel is wrong about climate action
Resistance is not futile, as Alan Finkel might have us believe. There are so many reasons why climate action can and must go much faster.
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From this week, every mainland Australian state will allow genetically modified crops. Here's why that's nothing to fear
Leaked draft suggests Brussels planning early EU ETS supply cuts, inclusion of int’l shipping
The Guardian view on getting to net zero: the crunch is coming | Editorial
Bold climate targets are meaningless without policies to meet them. The PM should grab the chance to make Cop26 a success
Targets are all very well. But not if there is no way of reaching them. In which case, they are a sham. This is the problem now confronting the government. The UK’s stated goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 78% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels is very ambitious. “Remarkable” was the word used last week by Lord Deben (the former Conservative environment secretary John Gummer). He chairs the climate change committee (CCC) that advises the government. Its latest reports make an unflattering contrast between impressive aims and the absence of plans to meet them.
A strategy setting out how the UK intends to meet its net zero pledge is promised before the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow in November. But there is little sign so far that ministers grasp the scale of the challenge. Not a single government department, the CCC finds, is moving at the necessary pace. Transport, agriculture, buildings, industry: in all the key emissions-producing sectors bar power generation, there has been an alarming lack of progress. Cuts to the aid budget now overseen by the Foreign Office mean that it too is implicated. Support for poor countries as they make the transition away from fossil fuels has long been recognised as a crucial element of the global climate process.
Continue reading...UK carbon prices to stick near £50 for now but could easily double by 2023 -analysts
Mining holds the key to a green future – no wonder human rights activists are worried
Renewable energy will rely heavily on an industry already berated for human rights violations
Interest in Dogger Bank was once restricted to insomniac enthusiasts for the BBC’s Shipping Forecast. Not anymore. Today, the shallow sandbank located 120 miles off the UK’s north-eastern shoreline, is home to the world’s largest windpower project. When fully operational, giant turbines will transmit 3.6 gigawatts (GW) of electricity, enough to power 5m homes, into the national grid at prices well below current levels.
Welcome to the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. Across the world, solar and wind now represent the cheapest source of new electricity generation – and prices are tumbling. Electric vehicle (EV) batteries are driving oil towards obsolescence. Stripped of government subsidies and corporate lobbying carbon-based fuels are a busted flush. The future of energy is green – and the future can’t come soon enough to tackle the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Oregon legislature passes ambitious clean energy bill that sets 100% goal
Appeal to identify 'La Botaniste' who slipped from history
Strawberry fields forever? New variety tastes great … and grows all summer
Experts say they have found the ultimate version of the fruit. It’s called Ace, but now we just need enough foreign pickers
It would be easy to dismiss it as a marketing gimmick. A strawberry called Ace, announced on the eve of Wimbledon – surely, you cannot be serious? But the academics and strawberry breeders of the East Malling research institute are not given to cheap slogans. Malling Ace is a super strawberry that is creating more excitement in the world of horticulture than even the possibility of another Andy Murray title.
“The Ace name sort of indicates what we felt about it – it really, really does excel,” said Adam Whitehouse, who led the Malling Ace project. “It’s a new variety that has been fast-tracked through our system because it really did stand out and it caused a lot of excitement at such an early stage.”
Continue reading...UK’s climate pledges lead the world, but its policy falls badly short
UK government has made historic climate promises in the past year, for which it deserves credit. But it has been too slow to follow these with delivery.
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