Stuffthatcounts

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...

Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney...

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

I wrote an article in New Matilda a while back taking Simon Holmes à Court (SHAC) to task for using maps to mislead people. Maps can...

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

"Private security contractors" ... who made the decision? Did Daniel Andrews know about it? Australian media has been in a feeding frenzy...

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

It's a terrible thing when people misuse statistics, because it gives the whole field a bad name. It feeds the anti-science cover-story...

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

In the lead up to my sister's death in 2018, we had a number of traumatic conversations about hope and lies. "Why do doctors have to...

Public transport and rooftop solar panels. Is there a connection? Everybody loves public transport ... as an idea. Everybody understands...

I'm not at all sure about writing anything about those afraid of 5G. Will anybody worried about 5G actually read or care about what I or...

Living in cities has a way of insulating people from the consequences of their choices. We carefully nurture the trees we love in parks...

Nobody opposes the soap industry because it may lead to chemical weapons. Nobody opposes vaccination because it may lead to biological...

Kirk Smith died on the 15th of June of a heart attack and stroke. The stream of emails I'd been getting from him since 2008 had gone...

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

The New York Times at the moment has a daily table of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every US state. Here's the top five today (June 19th)...

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

The Advertiser today featured Tory Shepherd at the top of the page taking on racists pretending to be protectors of free speech and...

The image above comes from the Visual Capitalist website in December 2019 ... just before Covid-19 burst upon the scene and borrowed the...