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A report commissioned by Greenpeace estimates that the hidden cost of coal exceeds $170billion every year. This includes the cost of respiratory diseases, and the contribution that burning coal makes to climate change. It notes that while coal is usually considered a cheap source of energy, this is largely because most of the costs of Continue Reading →
See the commission’s press release Australian cities need to get used to the idea of drinking recycled water Chairman of the National Water Commission, Ken Matthews, said last week. “To retain the water security we have grown up with we need to find alternatives to rain fed dams,” he said. The commission compared the economic Continue Reading →
From the National Water Commission
The National Water Commission sees water recycling, including for drinking purposes, as a viable option to “supply harden” water supplies to Australian cities and towns.
The key urban water lesson of the last decade has been that many Australian cities’ supply systems have been found to be vulnerable and fragile – too reliant on single sources of water especially rain-fed dams. These cities need to harden their water supply systems by tapping into more secure and reliable water supply sources that can supplement variable rainfall, meet the demands of population growth and position us to withstand climate change.
Japanese electronics and electrical company Toshiba, last week launched a battery designed to power the next generation of electric cars. (Read the full story) The SuperCharge battery is fast to recharge, can be recharged 5,000 times and is desinged to last for ten years. It is also light-weight and engineered to avoid catching fire, a Continue Reading →
TOKYO – A new battery that can be recharged to 90 percent capacity in under five minutes and lasts 10 years will start shipping in March, Toshiba Corp. announced this week, hailing it as “a new energy solution” for cleaner transportation.
Toshiba plans to initially make the quick-charging Super Charge ion Battery for electric bikes, forklifts, construction machinery and other industrial use. It can work in temperatures as low as minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 25th November 2008
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the time the bastards kick him out. His midnight regulations, opening America’s wilderness to logging and mining, trashing pollution controls, tearing up conservation laws, will do almost as much damage in the last 60 days of his presidency as he achieved in the foregoing 3000.
His backers – among them the nastiest pollutocrats in America – are calling in their favours. But this last binge of vandalism is also the Bush presidency reduced to its essentials. Destruction is not an accidental product of its ideology. Destruction is the ideology. Neoconservatism is power expressed by showing that you can reduce any part of the world to rubble.