At the dawn of the current EV revolution, Mitsubishi launched a highway-capable, mass-produced five-door hatchback called the i-MiEV, followed by an electric version of its veteran microvan. Now that Minicab-MiEV is being updated for 2024.
— Read on newatlas.com/automotive/mitsubishi-minicab-ev/
Cambridge professor says grey hydrogen buses are expensive, ‘destructive’ and not a true zero-emissions solution
— Read on www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/24/victoria-warned-against-very-very-inefficient-hydrogen-buses-after-trial-announced
didn’t WA evaluate hydrogen powered buses back in 1980s and cancel? Even with help from local BP refinery? Why repeat 40 years later?
Chinese wind turbine maker Goldwind has installed its massive 16 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine in a “record-breaking” 24 hours.
— Read on electrek.co/2023/11/23/china-goldwind-16-mw-offshore-wind-turbine-24-hours/
GWH252-16MW wind turbine; in September, turbine set new world record for electricity generation – in a typhoon – an individual wind turbine in 24-hour period. (It produced 384.1 megawatt-hours in 24 hours – enough to power nearly 170,000 homes.)
Australia’s underinvestment in research is becoming a national security issue, some university heads argue, ahead of a landmark review and the AUKUS deal.
— Read on www.theage.com.au/education/australia-underspends-on-this-key-area-it-may-put-national-security-at-risk-20231111-p5ej93.html
Haven’t % cuts to research been needed to match % blow outs in defence budget?
Neoen’s huge Collie battery could be paid more than $100 million a year to help squash solar duck curve in world’s biggest isolated grid, but state-owned battery will get paid much less.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/the-eye-watering-payments-being-made-to-big-batteries-to-squash-huge-solar-duck/
only in Australia? Couldn’t they see it coming?
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A concertgoer’s death amid extreme heat fueled by the climate crisis is sparking new questions about the superstar’s responsibility to protect her fans.
— Read on heated.world/p/what-does-taylor-swift-owe-the-planet
Hydration not permitted by event organisers!!! Crazier than ever
A veteran U.S. energy consultant and attorney is accusing the nascent carbon capture and storage (CCUS) industry of hypocrisy, after an industry report last week warned the technology won’t be able to meet the 2035 decarbonization goals in Canada’s draft Clean Electricity Regulations—even though they’re much the same targets Canadian CCUS proponents first promised nearly a decade ago.
— Read on www.theenergymix.com/2023/10/24/this-blows-my-mind-critic-says-as-ccus-centre-admits-it-cant-meet-2035-deadline/
Finally, RIP to CCS???
Questionable contribution by trees, other boondoggles worthless. Time for serious cuts to emissions, no other way, before its too late.
Imagine the year is 2030. You are walking down your street. Your local newsletter just announced that your community is now running on 100% renewable energy.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/the-future-of-energy-is-community-energy-and-100-per-cent-renewable/
Their timing is unconscionable when the world is at peak anxiety as climate change may soon become unstoppable.
— Read on johnmenadue.com/unconscionable-albanese-governments-massive-fossil-fuel-developments-mock-mitigation-efforts/
“Indeed climate change is a war for our survival, and at present our politicians are being defeated on the climate front in the face of their own ignorance and ineptitude by powerful fossil fuel interests, by media and social media misinformation and a neoliberal economy which devours the environment in its quest for growth.”
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