Renewable energy for all
Most policy buffs suggest that governments should not pick winners in the renewable energy or any other field. Now there is a scientific reason for narrowing the choice – any energy source other than the sun and derivatives such as [...]
The IEA’s solar energy perspective
World-wide the shipping rate of solar PV has increased by a compound rate of 65% in the five years to 2010: The graph above showing the shipping rate of solar came from the International Energy association (IEA) which has recently [...]
Renewables in Germany – a paradigm shift or just a muddle?
On solar PV installations the laurels go to Germany. They installed 3 Gw of solar PV in December alone, compared with 1.7 Gw in the US for the whole of 2011 – and at roughly half the price. This is [...]
Quick link: CEO of largest power company argues for change
This is a guest post by John Davidson, a retired engineer who comments as John D. Climate Spectator ran a summary of this fascinating interview with David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy. NRG energy has more than 24 Gw [...]
More on renewables, and stuff
This week there were too many items on renewable energy to include in the Climate clippings post and they continue to roll in, so I’ve collected them in a separate post. Wind energy Wind energy leads green energy race in [...]
More on renewables
Deep in the Saturday Courier mail was an article plugging coal seam gas and interviewing the author of a “new report”, one Matt Ridley. The report was easily run down. It can be downloaded from here. If you noticed a [...]
The Wabo hydro project
A couple of weeks ago, to some fanfare, the Bligh government signed a memorandum of cooperation (memo here) with Origin Energy and the PNG Sustainable Development program for the Wabo Hydroelectric project. The plan, described in fact sheets from the [...]
ACF poll finds that 45% of soft voters would be more likely to support Labor with an ETS
The Australian Conservation Foundation has commissioned polling from Auspoll on attitudes to the major parties’ climate change stance: The survey, part of Auspoll’s national omnibus of 1500 voters, found: * When asked which party leader “do you trust most to [...]
Iceland wants our computer servers
The night before last, deep in the night I was listening to the BBC I think it would have been. There was a news item saying that Iceland was trying to persuade the world to locate all its large computer [...]
Geothermal energy progresses – slowly
The topic of “hot rock” geothermal energy has been covered a number of times in LP, the first being this post by Steve Edney back in 2006. Australia has little volcanically hot rocks close to the surface; however, in some [...]
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