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The clean coal fantasy
I’m continually amazed at just how often you can hear the term “clean coal” (“carbon sequestration”, “carbon capture and store”) come out of the political arena. I don’t think I can recall another as...
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China may well solve global warming.. Kinda
Bit of a strange call, given that China is pouring out pollution like there’s no tomorrow, pollutes more than the USA and has 750,000 people dying each year thanks to pollution (and that’s the censored...
View ArticleTop 4 Clean Coal Spoofs
I’ve trawled the internet for some amusing ads after my earlier rant about clean coal “The clean coal fantasy“: Oh and here’s another one: and a cutesy cartoon one explaining the “science”: More...
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Ray of sunshine on renewables in Australia
Good news for the environment: Australia is going to spend some of that “nation building” money on solar. Australia plans to build the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000...
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An electric motorcycle to drool over
I’m usually loyal to my very sexy Triumph Daytona 675 (both of them!) but this beautiful machine changes all that: the MotoCzysz E1pc. MotoCzysz E1pc - Electric just got sexy! Their petrol burning...
View ArticleGo fly a kite (and generate power)
It’s one I’ve been referring to in a few conversations lately, so here’s a TED talk by Saul Griffith about a different way to use wind power for electricity generation. Although my current job is a...
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Picturing pollution in China
A moving picture set detailing some of the pollution in China thanks to rapid growth and massive scale industrialisation. Shepard by the yellow river can't stand the pollution smell. Villager in...
View ArticleThe 4 ways sound affects us (TED talk)
Watching TED on my phone on the bus yesterday and this one reminded me of some workplace experiences that have been less than suitable for getting work done. A few years back (ok a handful of years...
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Clean coal a costly snake oil solution
I’ve posted before on this fantasy world people are living in assuming we can somehow cheaply and efficiently lock away the output of coal burning. Sounds like I was right according to a Sydney Morning...
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Volunteer tree hugging (more like grass fondling)
A month or so back I did a bit of a different day in the office: a day of native vegetation planting and weed removal out at Homebush, Sydney (the old Olympic site). It was for a group called...
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Solar panels on government buildings.. A first step.
Fantastic news that the South Australian premier Mike Rann announced that all government buildings in South Australia would, from July 2010, have solar panels soaking up the free photonic goodness...
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What if we are wrong about climate change?
My take on this has always been that we pollute far too much currently and although the science seems overwhelmingly in favour of man made global warming: does it really matter? Businesses will get...
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Scientists didn’t come down in the last shower
Had a reply letter published today in the SMH on a climate change denier’s wilful misquoting of scientists on climate change. The environment is something I’m quite passionate about and like a lot of...
View ArticleLetter on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (aka “Secretly trading away our...
Letter on the TPP that’s being sneakily negotiated behind our backs. To whom it may concern, Despite little public disclosure – enough details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have leaked out to...
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