Tag Archives: Energy

Nuclear risk insurance

By Kate | Published: August 22, 2011
Read more at BraveNewClimate “Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get insurance” against the risks of [...]
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Water Wednesday – Desalination: Future directions for Australia’s world class facilities

By Kate | Published: August 2, 2011
Read more at The Environment Institute “Audio visual material from the Water Wednesday presentation is now available here. A special forum presented by the Water Research Centre and the Australian Water Association SA on 27 July 2011, at the University of Adelaide. This special joint Water Wednesday forum featured presentations from two leading experts in Desalination - Nikolay [...]
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The Australian Government’s Climate Change Plan – Securing a Clean Energy Future

By Kate | Published: July 20, 2011
Read more at The Environment Institute “The Australian Government presented, on July 10, its plan on the Carbon Price for the 2012 -  2015 period and beyond.  The plan, Clean Energy Future, is designed to transition Australia to a clean economy through four key initiatives – carbon pricing, renewable energy, energy efficiency [...]
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For climate’s sake, nuclear power is not an ‘option’, it is a ‘necessity’

By Kate | Published: July 20, 2011
Read more at BraveNewClimate “Let’s start by establishing some common ground between my views and those ‘traditional’ environmentalists who oppose nuclear energy. As the Director of Climate Science and active researcher on the impacts of global warming on the biosphere at the University of Adelaide (Australia), I understand the seriousness of [...]
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Seminar – Underground Knowledge

By Kate | Published: July 7, 2011
Read more at Blog about Science at Adelaide “How cutting-edge research is revealing new ore deposits and the forces that create them. Presented by: Prof Nigel Cook When: Tues 12th July, 5.30-6.30pm Where: North Terrace Campus, Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre To find out more go to the University of Adelaide – Research Tuesdays’ website or click below to register. Register Now…”
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Mining The Sun: New technologies reducing energy consumption, costs and impacts

By Kate | Published: July 7, 2011
Read more at The Environment Institute “Experts from The University of Adelaide and industry will join Professor Aldo Steinfeld of ETH, Zurich, one of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of mining and resources, to discuss the emerging opportunities to integrate concentrated solar radiation into mining and minerals processing operations [...]
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Solar Research Succeeds in Winning ARC Linkage

By Kate | Published: June 27, 2011
Read more at The Environment Institute “An investigation which aims to reduce the levelised cost of solar thermal energy by 40 per cent relative to present hybrids has successfully won an Australian Research Council Linkage Project application. The Centre for Energy Technology (CET) Director Professor Gus Nathan heads up the successful application team which [...]
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