Stuffthatcounts

Should a South Australian Parliamentary Committee recommend a ban on shooting flying ducks with shotguns? It's about the process.

Should the Australian Greens party be names the Browns? No, not in honour of Bob Brown, but in honour of being the parties of big mining.

Fining or jailing people for climate protests shows a lack of imagination almost as large as the protests themselves.

A critique of the role of lies in the nuclear power debate

The UK Independent newspaper ran a remarkable line about the deal between the Greens and the Australian Government on the so-called...

RenewEconomy recently ran an interesting article with an amazing headline: “Cannon-Brookes backed fund to deliver "coal plant-worth” of...

Suppose you are trying to shift Australia’s 30 million tonne grain harvest and somebody has decreed that you couldn’t use anything other...

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase coined back in 1992 during a U.S. election campaign. It’s purpose was to keep people focused on...

Climate scientist Matthew England interviewed Naomi Oreskes, who, with Erik Conway, wrote: “Merchants of Doubt; How a handful of...

I posted about decarbonising diesel engines a while back and it’s time for part II: solutions. But “approaches” is definitely a more...

This is the start of a series on hard-to-decarbonise parts of the global economy. The first part will be diesel engines and it will take...

One of the less frequently reported events at COP27 in Egypt was the presentation of a UN report on Corporate Greenwashing. At least I...

I vaguely remember learning about cargo cults at school. Are they still in the curriculum? Perhaps there is so much competition in the...

I imagine the inhabitants of Kimba South Australia would have a little chuckle if the ABC ran a story with the headline: “Murray...

Back in 2009 I wrote a book, CSIRO Perfidy, about the most environmentally destructive diet on the planet … the Commonwealth Scientific...

The global energy market is becoming transfixed by gas. Without adequate gas supplies, people in cold climates will be dying, or very...

Abbreviations: AEMO: Australian Energy Market Operator ESB: Energy Security Board GENCOST: Gencost GSOO: Gas Statement of Opportunities...

[This post is a short holiday from the serious series on nuclear costs.] Over the past decade or so I’ve heard numerous people extol the...

Part III: Is nuclear power really expensive, or just much better? Abbreviations: AEMO: Australian Energy Market Operator CCGT:...

Abbreviations: CCGT: combined-cycle gas turbine, this is the top-of-the-range gas turbine CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage GENCOST:...