Stuffthatcounts

This is the first of two posts, and deals with the speed of building nuclear reactors. The next post will deal with costs. Build speeds...

[N.B. Longer article on Grid Capacity, promised last week, has been delayed a little ... but is still coming] I keep seeing news reports...

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has drawn up a detailed Integrated System Plan (ISP) for the eastern Australian grid (the...

"Blackouts" seem to be the new black. SBS On Demand is running a couple of mini-series on them at the moment. There's a 2020 Belgian 10...

The Economist recently interviewed the German Europe and climate Minister, Anna Luhrmann, about Germany's will and capacity to wean...

Claims that we can move to 100 percent renewable electricity are based on mathematical models; as is climate science. But you can test...

An analysis of what the Teal vote in Australia's General Election means for climate action.

When did the word "logistics" start appearing on trucks? It's become quite the fashionable tag for all manner of companies; waste...

The EU is inching toward classifying nuclear power and methane as 'sustainable' for the purposes of getting onto a magic list that...

As a vegan, I was a little miffed at not being tagged by Michael McCormack’s inner city latte sipper comment; but I’m guessing he has an...

Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was...

Virtual power plants (VPP) get quite a lot of press from time to time. These consist of a battery of batteries under software control...

If you follow the various high profile 100% renewable energy advocates, Mike Cannon-Brooks, Simon Holmes a Court and anybody in the...

When it comes to the carbon footprint of food, most people have worked out that reducing your carbon footprint involves comparisons....

You can burn hydrogen and it contains more energy per kilogram than petrol. That makes it sound terrific, but a cubic metre of hydrogen...

It's always confusing when people use different names for the same thing. Natural gas is burned for warmth and to generate electricity...

The old-school energy grid is on the nose. It still dominates the global supply, but all the talk is of renewable grids dominated by the...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore didn't say much about LNG (liquified natural gas) in their inconvenient documentary Planet of the Humans....

SARS-Cov-2 (the virus causing the Covid-19 disease) has jumped to us from another species. Which is how we got most other deadly...

Part II defined the two types of testing that are being used to test for SARS-Cov-2 virus infection. (2) Antibody testing ... cheap but...