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Electric Vehicles

What EVs are available in Australia? There are over 30 different EV manufacturers in the world. This is a small subset of what is available globally. Here’s every new electric vehicle available for purchase in Australia, ordered from least expensive to most expensive (MSRP) as of September 1, 2022. BYD Atto 3: $44,381MG ZS EV Excite: $44,990BYD Atto 3 Extended Range: $47,381Hyundai Ioniq…

Transmission Tower

Musings on Truth in Public Life Or, less kindly. A policy decade cluster-fuck. The Australian Energy Market Operator has SUSPENDED the National Electricity Market across all five participating states, saying the market has become: “impossible” to operate because of the soaring cost of fossil fuels and generators withholding their capacity from the market.AEMO 2022 Tony, Scott, Barnaby, Angus... Everybody OUT…

Sunflower Image

Source: Geoscience Australia Just sayin... The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world. That's 10,000 times LARGER than our energy consumption!Geoscience Australia

Earth Australia

What's next? Opining the lack of type 1 people in public leadership? Federal Election. Climate change anyone? Looking back to look forward. In 1916, the year my father was born, we only knew of our own galaxy. Think about that for a moment... We did not think there were any other galaxies. Consider that in just over one lifetime, we…

Fuel for Thought

On July 11 2008, I referenced the CSIRO, Australia's leading scientific and industrial reasearch organisation, which had just published its "Fuel for Thought" paper which was a direct result of the November 2007 'Future Fuels Forum". I also referenced a as speech by John Hofmeister, then President of Shell Oil, USA, speaking about Shell's position on energy conservation and Global…

Turbine Sunset

Over 100 cities now get at least 70% of their electricity from renewable sources such as hydro, geothermal, solar and wind. This includes Reykjavík, Iceland where geothermal and hydro-power are powering much of the city, and Basel, Switzerland where 100% of renewable power comes from the city's own energy supply company. In the US, where some 58 cities and towns…

The Future Called

In Energy Research & Social Science, John Wiseman  from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute provides a visit from the future. From the abstract: Looking back from 2050, this article is written in the form of a fictional speech reflecting on the impressive progress made by 2050 towards achieving the global goal of zero net emissions. The speaker also highlights the severe and…

Volvo EV

The Volvo motor-car company confirmed in 2017 the strategic decoupling of their vehicles from the internal combustion engine, supplementing all vehicles from 2019 with electric motors. We are committed to electrification, so from 2019 all new Volvo car models will include an electric motor. [ Hakan Samuelsson - President & CEO ] It will launch five fully electric cars between…

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