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NX Fusion Plus™ extends energy output and duration for solar power plants

How much battery storage is needed for a grid relying on wind and solar for nearly all its electricity needs? Not as much as many think, and a CSIRO study says much of it will be provided by households installing battery storage to help reduce their bills.

Has Adani been promised a royalty holiday? Will it pay for its water use? These and more questions for the Turnbull government.

The recalcitrance of reactionary ideologues to carbon pricing and climate policies only increases risks to energy security, prices and community stability.

Australia’s GDP went backwards 0.5% in the last quarter.

Prepare for an onslaught of propaganda and action about cutting back spending on poor people, workers etc etc. The problem, as I tried to argue in this article in Independent Australia, is not policies per se, but capitalism itself. As Marx argued, there is a systemic tendency in capitalism for the rate of profit to fall.

I oppose a price on carbon that is borne by the working class. Make the bosses pay for their pollution. And this is what a carbon tax, an emissions trading scheme and anything in between like an emissions intensity scheme, do.

Price solutions are classic free market ideology. This is true even if the price setter is the government directly or indirectly.

You could of course tax the polluters and exercise price control powers to stop them passing on the cost to workers.

The unparalleled acrobatics of the galago inspired the UC Berkeley team to design their robot in a similar way.

Obi is looking fly in his custom eyewear. The orange safety goggles, adorned with tiny reflectors, fit securely over his little feathered head. But Obi the parrotlet isn't wearing these goggles to make a fashion statement. He's part of an experiment where he flies through a sheet of lasers so that researchers can see how the air around him behaves as he moves.

Melbourne Airport is “begging” for a rail line to the airport asap; Infrastructure Victoria says not just yet. More effort needs to be put into being ready to go when necessary Should Melbourne Airport rail be put on the front-burner?

Wednesday 7 December 2016 It wasn’t so long ago that we had a ‘carbon tax’. One that over time would have become a Carbon Trading Scheme. The conservatives conveniently converted a statement by the then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, into a lie and as a consequence we have lost years in an effort to tackle…

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Save Our Marine Life is celebrating the fact that the Dutch-owned factory trawler Geelong Star has left Australian waters and will not be returning.The trawler has removed its Australian flag of convenience and been ref

By Kerry Fressard In the wake of two days of non-violent peaceful protest at Parliament, some sensationalist and hyperbolic media outlets have failed to address the issue behind the protests. That is, the bipartisan support for human rights abuses, sexual and physical assault, and trauma occurring in Australia’s offshore detention centres. In order to refocus…

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