Geoff Russell
Nuclear may (or may not) be expensive, but it's much faster to build than renewables!
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...
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Geoff Russell
- Aug 1
- 5 min
Mining Australia for meat
I don't remember the year, but it was shortly after the 2005 release of Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How societies choose to fail or...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 27
- 8 min
Renewable gas
[N.B. Longer article on Grid Capacity, promised last week, has been delayed a little ... but is still coming] I keep seeing news reports...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 20
- 4 min
Grid capacity and keeping the lights on (prelude)
[ This is just a taste of a longer post to appear later this week ]. How do you climb a mountain? Do you look just 50 metres in front of...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Stop Press: Germany's nuclear plants
Finally, the pounding of rationality has opened the great oak door of German energy policy by a centimetre or so. Germany may look at...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 14
- 13 min
EU Sustainability Taxonomy ... why allow solar PV?
The EU sustainable development rules are in the news again. I wrote about them back in January, but there have been some developments. ...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 7
- 10 min
Readfearn and Australia's electricity "plan"
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has drawn up a detailed Integrated System Plan (ISP) for the eastern Australian grid (the...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 29
- 15 min
A plea for professionalism in climate journalism in Australia
The IPCC Assessment Report 6, Working Group III devotes considerable attention to dietary change as a necessary part of tackling climate...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 22
- 21 min
Blackout: tomorrow is too late
"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...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 15
- 4 min
Blackout tales
Once upon a time, a fat red-faced businessman called Bill Watts built a power station. It cost him a billion dollars and was soon...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 8
- 7 min
Washing on the "green hydrogen" spin cycle
The Economist recently interviewed the German Europe and climate Minister, Anna Luhrmann, about Germany's will and capacity to wean...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 1
- 16 min
Modelling grids and telling fibs
Claims that we can move to 100 percent renewable electricity are based on mathematical models; as is climate science. But you can test...
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Geoff Russell
- May 25
- 12 min
The teal climate alternative
An analysis of what the Teal vote in Australia's General Election means for climate action.
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Geoff Russell
- May 17
- 13 min
How emission targets dug us deeper into a climate hole
What's the image all about? ... see the appendix at the end of the article. We desperately need a global plan to get to net-zero (or...
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Geoff Russell
- Apr 24
- 5 min
CSIRO; still denying climate science and working to screw the planet
Page 2055 of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 report (what a mouthful!) contains a remarkable...
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Geoff Russell
- Apr 14
- 11 min
There is a nuclear waste problem; but it's not what you think
When did the word "logistics" start appearing on trucks? It's become quite the fashionable tag for all manner of companies; waste...
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Geoff Russell
- Jan 6
- 10 min
European word games
The EU is inching toward classifying nuclear power and methane as 'sustainable' for the purposes of getting onto a magic list that...
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 11, 2021
- 8 min
Inner city latte sippers and big chemical plants
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...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
A tale of two projects: Wheatstone LNG Hub and the Asian Renewable Energy Hub
Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney...
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 14, 2021
- 12 min
IEA calls for big investment in nuclear power
Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was...
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