Thermoelectric technologies can help power a zero-carbon future
Feb 22, 2024 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Thermometers are an under-appreciated marvel of human ingenuity built upon an understanding of relatively simple physical principles. Mercury and alcohol thermometers rely on the volume of liquids growing or shrinking in...
Feb 20, 2024 11:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The United Nations flagship Global Resources Outlook report is the portrait of a juggernaut. Due to be published later this month by the UNs International Resource Panel, it highlights how global consumption of raw...
Jan 15, 2024 03:42 am UTC| Nature Business
Hydrogen will play a role in weaning us off fossil fuels. It can be used to power trains, planes and HGVs, as well as being a low-carbon alternative to coke in steelmaking and a way to warm our homes. But where will we...
Dec 18, 2023 02:23 am UTC| Business
I recently found myself among a group of alarmed scientists, writing a fervent plea to the European Commission to be more ambitious when it comes to corporate greenhouse gas reporting requirements. Our open letter calling...
Coal will be all but gone by 2034 under Australia's latest energy roadmap
Dec 18, 2023 02:21 am UTC| Economy
Australias coal power stations will all close in 2038 five years earlier than previously expected and variable renewable energy capacity will need to triple by 2030 and increase sevenfold by 2050. These are two key...
Jan 24, 2023 05:30 am UTC| Economy
At the end of last year, the worlds average price to emit one tonne of greenhouse gases was around US$5.29 (AU$7.77). For pricing to work as we want to wean us off fossil fuels it needs to be around $75 by the end of the...
The end of coal-fired power is in sight, even with private interests holding out
Oct 11, 2022 04:28 am UTC| Economy
If future historians pick a point in time when Australia comprehensively turned its back on coal-fired generation, they may well point to AGLs decision to bring forward the closure of Loy Yang A, the cheapest (excluding...