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admin /25 July, 2010
Lead the charge
STEPHEN OTTLEY
July 23, 2010
Mitsubishi i-MiEV
Electric vehicles are making their way on to our roads. We meet some of the people who have adopted the technology.
Bernie Hobbs is a pioneer of Australian motoring. The science broadcaster, best known as a judge on the ABC’s New Inventors, is among the first people in this country to ditch her internal combustion-powered car for an all-electric set of wheels.
She is the proud owner of a Blade Electron, a car that starts life as a Hyundai Getz before Victorian-based entrepreneur Ross Blade and his team take out the petrol engine and replace it with an electric motor.
The Blade may be a small operation but make no mistake: electric is on its way. Mitsubishi will have 40 of its i-MiEV electric city car on the road by the end of the year. Nissan is likely to offer the Leaf electric hatchback by 2012.
admin /24 July, 2010
Iran plans to build nuclear fusion reactor
Posted 24 minutes ago
Iran says it plans to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, state television reported, at a time when the West is demanding that Tehran suspend sensitive nuclear work.
In 2006, Iran said it was pressing ahead with research tests on nuclear fusion, a type of atomic reaction which has yet to be developed for commercial power generation, but this was the first mention in years that the work was continuing.
“We need two years to complete the studies on constructing and then another 10 years to design and build the reactor,” Asqar Sediqzadeh, head of Iran’s Nuclear Fusion Research Centre, told Iran’s English-language Press TV.
admin /24 July, 2010
Greens’ plan for 100% renewable energy The Australian Greens today launched a policy to plan Australia’s transformation into a 100% renewable energy powerhouse over the coming decades. “Australia can harness our tremendous resources of the sun, wind, ocean, earth and human ingenuity to replace our reliance on coal with 100% renewable energy within decades,” Australian Continue Reading →
admin /24 July, 2010
Investors call for clear policy on carbon
CLANCY YEATES AND MATHEW MURPHY
July 24, 2010
BILLIONS of dollars in planned investment that has been frozen by carbon policy uncertainty is set to remain under a cloud, despite the government’s latest moves to curb emissions.
While business groups cautiously welcomed Julia Gillard’s carbon policies yesterday, big investors in the energy sector said the changes would do little to shift funding towards cleaner fuels.
Under Labor’s proposal, all new coal-fired power stations would face new emissions standards and have to be ”carbon-capture and storage ready”. The government claims this will send investors a powerful signal to invest in cleaner energy, including gas and renewable power.
But energy sector sources said the new policy did nothing to address the key question hanging over their investment decisions – what, if any, carbon price to factor in.
Power companies have already slashed $10 billion off their spending plans over the next five years because of policy uncertainty, a report from the Energy Supply Association of Australia said this week.
admin /24 July, 2010
Obama blocked on climate
- Brad Norington, Washington correspondent
- From: The Australian
- July 24, 2010 12:00AM
The decision means that a comprehensive climate change bill sought by the US President is unlikely to be passed before mid-term congressional elections in November, as he wanted.
And Mr Obama’s hopes of passing any such legislation in his first term to combat greenhouse gases could be dashed.
It is widely expected that Democrats will lose many seats in this year’s mid-term elections, threatening their majorities and potentially jeopardising further support for the presidential agenda, including climate change.
With Republicans standing as a united bloc against legislation to introduce an emissions target and a cap-and-trade scheme, the Obama administration is left in a similar predicament to Labor in Australia after the Rudd government’s bill was rejected in the Senate.
admin /24 July, 2010
Court battle looms over Snowy River flows
Updated 15 minutes ago
Eight years ago the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victorian governments agreed to spend $375 million to improve the dwindling river’s flow. (AAP: Jennifer Chapman)
Environmentalists are taking the NSW Government to court over what they say is its failure to restore environmental flows to the Snowy River.
